Word: patients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jolting a patient repeatedly with 20,000 volts of low-current electricity block the effects of a venomous snakebite? Dr. Ronald Guderian has no answer; he knows only that the treatment seems to work. "After we help people, we can ask questions," says Guderian, an American missionary physician working in the Amazon rain forests of Ecuador. Snakebites account for 4% of deaths in the region, and survivors sometimes suffer tissue damage that can lead to gangrene and amputation of the affected limb. But as reported in the July 26 issue of the Lancet, a British medical journal, Guderian has successfully...
...current device, many believe, should be used to sustain a patient until a natural heart can be transplanted. About a dozen such operations have been performed in the U.S. Some experts argue that the need for a permanent implant is waning as heart transplants have become increasingly successful and the criteria have been broadened to accept previously rejected candidates. Indeed, notes DeVries, the last five patients referred to him as potential recipients of permanent artificial pumps have been given transplants. He remains convinced of the need for a permanent artificial device. With FDA permission for three more operations...
...impotent by dissension. By working to put together strong majorities on foreign-policy issues, he has brought greater clout to the panel than it has enjoyed in a decade. "He's a good chairman," says the committee's ranking Democrat, Rhode Island's Claiborne Pell. "He's fair and patient and would prefer a consensus to winning a point by a vote." Lugar has also earned high praise for helping position the Administration behind Corazon Aquino during the last days of Ferdinand Marcos' rule in the Philippines...
...aides referred to his negotiating style as "water torture": he would make the same point over and over, until the other side wearily relented. He was endlessly patient, but knew when to be brusque. When a North Vietnamese negotiator disrupted the Laotian talks with abusive rhetoric, Harriman "accidentally" pressed the talk button on his microphone and remarked to an aide so that all could hear, "Did that little bastard say we started World...
Violence resulting from such situations is almost inevitable. Dr. Darold Treffert, chairman of the board of the Wisconsin State Medical Society, has collected several hundred cases from all over the U.S. of deinstitutionalized patients who, lacking treatment, became involved in violence. Says Treffert: "Most states ended up with three standards for civil commitment: danger to self, danger to others and gravely disabled. We need a fourth standard, for that patient who is obviously ill but not yet deteriorated to the point of being dangerous." The tragic history of the New York ferry slashing underscores just how serious that danger...