Word: patients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life, Dr. Leonard Bailey was visibly spent. His voice trembled and broke with emotion last Friday as he faced the press at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California to provide the epitaph for the dark-haired infant known as Baby Fae. "Today we grieve the loss of this patient's life," said the 41-year-old heart surgeon. That life, he insisted, had not been in vain. "Infants with heart disease yet to be born will some day soon have the opportunity to live, thanks to the courage of this infant and her parents. We are remarkably encouraged...
...Leonard L. Bailey, the California surgeon who supervised the pioneering transplant last month of a baboon heart to the infant Baby Fac, Predicted soon after the procedure was completed that his tiny patient would lead a "long and healthy" life...
...computer that was his to play with as he saw fit. So he told two friends, and they told two friends and over the next several weeks they broke into the $750,000 computer of the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center a total of 80 times--rummaging through private patient data and treatment records, reading private memos between doctors and, on at least two occasions, causing the system that monitors and plans patient treatment to close down entirely. They also added personal touches to the machine. Spurred by the movie Wargames that had just opened at theatres across the Midwest, they...
...words are spoken by Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist in a rural English hospital, and they are directed to Alan Strang, his 17-year-old patient who, at the moment, is under hypnosis. Alan has been institutionalized after blinding six horses one night in the stable where he works on weekends. Equus is the imaginary horse god, the product of Alan's tangled mind and troubled childhood and it is Dysart's task to exorcise it from him. The question on which Peter Shaffer's play turns is, simply, does Dysart want...
...troupe also represents the terrifying mob. They can loll about disinterestedly, and then be seized by frenzied fits. As one patient suddenly bursts out, "Man is a mad animal." He growls and flails his arms and butts the nurses and nuns, yelping, "I'm a thousand years old and I've commited a million murders--prisons don't help, chains don't help...I'm not through yet...I've got plans...