Word: patients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think most of it is confidence," Roby said. "He needs to be patient, and he needs to be confident that the shots are going to drop...
...Sept. 30, Schmidt began the seven-hour operation by cutting a 2 1/2-foot long incision from the middle of his patient's thigh to more than halfway below her knee. He pulled back muscles and nerves, exposed the bones and the tumor; using a surgical saw, he then severed the femur four inches above the knee and the tibia, or shinbone, six inches below it. That done, he lifted out the old joint and tumor, trimmed the carefully chosen donor joint and inserted it into the twelve-inch gap. Using a metal rod and plate, the surgeon secured...
Horror stories abound, especially in the health and postal services. Urgent operations can be postponed for three to four months while a patient waits for a hospital bed. "You can queue up and wait to die," says Ferrarotti, "or you can drop 400,000 lire (($325)) up front to ensure yourself a place." A payoff helps to get things done. In a new study, Professor Franco Cazzola of the University of Catania estimates that the kickback industry, the entrenched system of institutionalized bribery, amounts to 3.3 trillion lire ($2.7 billion) a year. One Turin industrialist admits that he does...
...alcoholism. The truth is that success rates often depend more on the individual makeup of the alcoholic than on the treatment. Alcoholics fitting Cloninger's male-limited type are less likely to remain sober after treatment, along with those with unstable work and family backgrounds. "The best predictor of patient outcome is the patient," says Thomas Seessel, executive director of the National Council on Alcoholism. "Those who are steadily employed, married and in the upper middle class are more likely to succeed. They have more to lose." In response to allegations that some centers have exaggerated how well their patients...
Today about 95% of in-patient treatment centers in the U.S. use a 28-day drying-out program developed in 1949 at Hazelden. For the first few days, staff help patients through the tremors and anxiety of withdrawal. From that point on, the emphasis is on counseling. The aims: dispel the alcoholic's self-delusions about drinking, drive home an understanding of alcohol's destructive properties, and make it clear that the only reasonable course is to stop drinking -- permanently. Some centers use Antabuse, a drug that induces vomiting and other symptoms if the patient has a drink. Schick Shadel...