Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cancer patient whose tumor is not responding to conventional therapy can go into clinical trials of new drugs, but there are sometimes waiting lists and shortages," Folkman says. "Whenever lab discoveries come close to application, you have to be super-extra careful...because media coverage can increase expectations...
...perfect servant," he declared at the Democratic convention in 1984. "I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with...
...their illnesses become so severe that they lose their jobs or hurt themselves. Even business lobbyists admit that the cost increases for mental-health insurance will be small (maybe 1%). But they fear it will open the door to other mandates as well. "You have to remember that the Patient's Bill of Rights is being considered too," says Kate Sullivan of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, referring to the proposal in Congress to make it easier for people to get around the cost restrictions of managed care. "So you're talking about 1% here and 1.5% there...
Each state blundered differently. Washington State tied community mental-health spending to the size of welfare rolls, a sign of stigma itself. In Illinois, the state often paid nursing homes to take many of its patients. But old people and mentally ill people don't have the same needs, and few nursing homes hired the staff needed to treat the different set of patients. A bill before the Illinois legislature would require those hirings, but the efforts come too late for Russell Weston Jr. In 1996 he became an outpatient at an underfunded community mental-health center in Waterloo...
...last many more months. If NATO is not ready to take risks to defeat Milosevic, it may have to prepare itself, and the wider world, for the least bad negotiated settlement. And winter comes quickly in Kosovo. Clinton pleaded for the allies to "stay focused and patient." But there are not many months left for the air campaign or the diplomacy to work in time for ethnic Albanians to be shepherded home to their charred villages before the autumn snows turn the battered province into a frigid moonscape. So too does the inflexible logic of winter force NATO to confront...