Word: patients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though consumer advocates complain that the service creates a blacklist, Physician's Alert insists that its customers merely want to be cautious in treating people who might sue. Says Eckstein: "We know of no instance in which a patient has been refused care...
...adopted the plight of the terminally ill for his final cause. His mind sharp to the end, he turned up at meetings in his wheelchair, his head supported by a brace because his neck muscles had atrophied. "Life does not stop with terminal illness," he said. "Only the patient stops if he doesn't have the will to go forward with life." No one could fairly accuse Javits of lacking that will...
...most coronary-bypass surgery, veins taken from a patient's leg must be deftly sewn to one or more of the heart's arteries, some no thicker than a straw. Last week a nine-member court-martial jury found that Commander Donal Billig, a Navy doctor and former chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital, had "wrongfully" performed that delicate operation. The result: two retired servicemen, Lieut. Colonel John Kas and Petty Officer Joe Estep, died in 1984 after Billig operated on them...
...gave a lecture here the other day, and I told them, "Look, you people were so tolerant and so patient under Marcos for 20 years, and here I am only two days and you are expecting miracles. Then last night I talked to the nonviolent group, and again here come their protests, and I said, "This is all the thanks I get? Here I am giving my all and you people are still complaining. Why did I go through this exercise? You can get somebody else." I just wanted to make things clear...
...year, he had not performed open-heart surgery in six years. Nonetheless, the Navy permitted him to undertake such operations after only six months of retraining. Last month Monmouth's chairman of surgery, Dr. Cyril Arvanitis, revealed that he had begun to suspect Billig after examining weekly reports of patient deaths. "Dr. Billig's cases began to appear with increasing frequency," Arvanitis testified. "We kept seeing new cases, and his explanations weren't satisfactory...