Word: patients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing is certain, despite rising costs, increasing competition, and changing patient populations
...entirely unsordid details, they are as follows: the setting was the slightly less than grand Grand Hotel on the Welsh seacoast, where she took a job as a waitress; the lucky fellow was the cute young Scottish chef, who was patient, kind and wise about the whole business. As was Annie, come to think of it. Since the weather was uniformly fine and their mates on the hotel staff, being lower class and English, were politely eccentric, it is hard to see anything about the experience that was unpleasant. Even sitting through the rather dim and distant movie about that...
...will be hot sellers. AT&T offers a fire-alert system linking smoke alarms to phones that will dial two numbers when smoke is detected ($199 a system, $29 a link). A pocket-size medical transmitter ($49) alerts a unit ($199) that dials up to two numbers if a patient needs immediate attention. Gulf + Western's Sensaphone ($250) monitors room temperatures, sound levels and electrical systems. If a room's temperature rises above or drops below a preset level when a householder is away, perhaps because of a fire or a pipe-freezing chill, the device will automatically...
Despite the success rates for early detection of tumors, many women are so terrified by the prospect of a mastectomy that they delay treatment. As former Patient Judy Feinman, 46, puts it: "I knew there was something wrong, but I just didn't want to face it." Perhaps, says Bonadonna, the availability of less disfiguring treatments will lead to less procrastination. "Women will realize that if they come in early, they will not be punished by the removal of a breast.'' -By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Mary Carpenter/Venice and Carol Foote/Santa Cruz
...unusual for these Olympic athletes to see the actual people they are benefiting, said second-ranked U.S. skater Brian Boitano. In particular, he added, one 10-year-old liver cancer patient who used to skate, impressed him, with his bravery...