Word: patients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reiterated an old battle cry. "Let us unite as a nation and protect the unborn," he urged. Within days, the Administration took action, announcing new regulations that will prohibit federally funded family-planning clinics from even mentioning abortion. The restrictions, which would affect 4,000 clinics and 4.3 million patients a year, were attacked last week not only by abortion advocates but by civil liberties groups and a host of medical organizations, some of which filed suit against the Government. The regulations, charged Rachel Pine of the A.C.L.U., would "turn a public health program into an ideological...
...patient's name was Debbie, and she was dying of ovarian cancer. After two sleepless days, she was struggling to breathe, vomiting repeatedly from a drug meant to sedate her. The resident physician on call was roused from sleep and summoned to her bedside in the night. The doctor had never seen the emaciated, dark-haired figure before. "It was a gallows scene, a cruel mockery of her youth and unfulfilled potential," the doctor wrote later. "Her only words to me were, 'Let's get this over with.' " The resident took her exhausted plea literally and instructed a nurse...
Anne Lang, vice president of the human resources department and interim vice president of operations, took her job on the welcoming team very seriously. When a teenaged patient passed by her station, she asked with concern if he wanted a stuffed animal. "We don't want you to feel left out," she said...
...Another patient who moved on Tuesday had only been in the hospital for a day when the journey took place. But in the morning before her unit moved, thirteen-year old Laura McLaughlin, from Manchester, N.H., had an operation to remove a tube from her chest...
Tuesday was both "exhilarating and poignant for the Children's family," Peck said. "It was both a beginning and an end for the people who have been at Children's for a long time. They will never take care of another patient in these buildings, where there have been patients for up to 50 years...