Word: patients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...packing fatalities, after an earlier spate of such deaths. Yet during the past year at Kennedy International Airport in New York, 51 mules have been arrested on the hoof: suspects are X-rayed and, if they do not confess, put in a hospital with a bedside commode and two patient customs guards. "The packets often come out like machine gun bullets, with a loud report," says Customs Inspector Peter di Rocco. A mule commonly ingests upwards of a pound of coke inside 100 packets or more...
...Grinspoon, "out-and-out cocaine psychosis:" Violence is not rare. When Nicky's wife finally smashed his free-basing pipe, he threw furniture and chased her from their suburban house. "I went ape," he says. Mike, the son of a well-to-do South Carolina lawyer, is a patient turned counselor at Charleston's Fenwick Hall drug-treatmeat center. He carried a gun during his cocaine madness. In 1980, as he was being arrested for the last time (for jumping into Charleston Harbor to "hunt sharks"), he kicked out the windows of a police squad car. Fortunately, according to Haight...
Medical miracles and the patient's right...
...elderly dying patient seemed to have slipped from life when Dr. George Dunlop, then a surgical intern at Cincinnati General Hospital, stepped in and managed to revive him. The patient, unable to speak, motioned for a pencil and wrote, unforgettably to Dr. Dunlop, "Why did you do this...
Though the Utah team is looking for a second artificial-heart candidate, it plans to proceed slowly. "The artificial heart today is at the stage that the transplants were when those operations began 16 years ago," says Stanford Cardiologist Philip Oyer. "Then no one knew how a patient would do, and there was a lot of skepticism." An encouraging note is that the world's first mechanical-heart recipient survived nearly six times as long as the first heart-transplant patient, who lilived only 19 days. And Clark, for all his suffering, said he would not hesitate to recommend...