Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...merger] will dramatically strengthen the ability of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine to fulfill its triple mission of research, education and patient care at a time when the healthcare market is threatening academic medical centers nationwide," Tosteson said in a statement...
...operation was a success, how come the patient is dying? The Administration may have called it a "humanitarian" mission, but this was old-fashioned gunboat diplomacy: send in the Marines, depose a government you don't like, install a friendlier one and leave the natives to fend for themselves. Any impulse of Clinton policymakers to actually lift Haiti out of political, social and economic destitution--what is widely derided as "nation building"--was fatally tainted by the American fiasco in Somalia. "We achieved the objectives we aimed for," says U.S. Ambassador William Swing, "so from our point of view...
...giving all of the orders to the waiters and waitresses who had been working in the restaurant for a long time. This did not strike us as a very professional way to run a kitchen, but our waitress seemed to be trying very hard, so we decided to be patient and continue waiting...
...official diagnosis of AIDS generally is not made until the helper T-cell count falls below 200. That customarily marks the beginning of a patient's final decline. In the past few years, however, doctors have come to realize that the T-cell number doesn't really tell them how sick a person is. Patients with fewer than 200 helper T cells sometimes seem quite healthy, while others with a higher count are already suffering from opportunistic infections, like Kaposi's sarcoma or pneumocystis pneumonia...
Even if protease inhibitors live up to their potential, it's not clear who will be able to afford them. By some estimates, the new drugs will cost $500 to $600 a month--probably for the rest of a patient's life. That's on top of standard treatment with AZT and its cousins, which runs approximately $400 a month. Hospitalization and other medical care in the final stages of the disease can add $150,000. Future treatments could dwarf even that. "Where is this going if we don't wake up?" asks Dr. Max Essex of the Harvard AIDS...