Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dutch physician Willem Kolff invents the dialysis machine, used to cleanse the blood when a patient's kidneys malfunction...
Even by his field's indulgent standards, Reich was surely one for the casebooks. Brilliant and charismatic, the Austrian-born psychoanalyst was an early disciple of Freud and produced a shrewd addition to analytic theory: a patient's character, he said, was revealed as much by body language--"muscular armoring," he called it--as by couch talk. Before long Reich split with Freud and went off on his own wobbly path. After dabbling with Marxism, he began theorizing about a universal life-giving "orgone energy"--which, he said, was expressed through neurosis-free orgasms. He fled...
...must we enter the new century in a state of ignorance? There is no shame in that. All previous centuries have been justly proud of their achievements, yet those have been found, in retrospect, to be deficient. We must learn to be patient. We should also discard the idea that scientific inquiry will ever be complete. What we know so far is that each question answered merely spawns another. Why should it not be like that for the rest of time...
...first sex-change operation is performed on a patient named George Jorgenson, later known as Christine Jorgenson...
...South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performs the first successful human-heart transplant; his patient, Louis Washkansky, survives 18 days...