Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ultra-rapid opiate-detoxification program that helps patients withdrawing from addictive drugs [MEDICINE, June 1] was developed and patented by the CITA organization. It was a vindication of the safety of the CITA process to see the criticism of our so-called competitors, who perform unsafe variations of rapid detox in cheap storefronts. They exploit a desperate and vulnerable patient population. In contrast, CITA operates from prestigious hospitals, using the finest physicians and medical treatments. More than 500 patients have been effectively treated, affording an unprecedented opportunity for those addicted to heroin, methadone and narcotic painkillers to return...
...George Will said I could sell it!" to a computer-generated voice that had put him on hold while it checked how to shift money to an equity fund. Occasionally a voice he'd been paying no attention to would come on the line, telling him to be patient. But had the voice, the last time it came on, talked not about patience but about how much of the world's food supply was produced in the U.S.? The voice had a familiar echo. Brinkley? Had Mike just heard David Brinkley describe how the federal ethanol program creates jobs...
...After many vials of blood have been taken from my arm, I am dressed in my patient's uniform--white polo shirt sporting the Cleveland Clinic logo and loose blue trousers--and seated across a desk from Dr. Richard Lang, section head of preventive medicine at Cleveland Clinic and my internist for the day. With unexpected deliberation, given the harried pace of American medicine, he spends the next hour questioning me--work, family, stresses, satisfactions, diet, diseases, sex life--progressing from the general to the specific. The goal of his detective work is to elicit hints of any underlying conditions...
Moore, aware of increased risk of postmenopausal heart disease, would worry if a patient was overweight. Excess body fat tends to negate estrogen's protective effect on the heart. She would point out that foods rich in folate, beta carotene and vitamins A, B6, C and E offer protection against heart disease and cancer. Eating a balanced diet consisting of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, protein sources such as poultry and fish, along with nuts and olive, peanut and canola oils can supply these nutrients...
Henson was a kind, infinitely patient man. Those who worked for him say he literally never raised his voice. Frank Oz, the puppeteer behind Bert, Miss Piggy and many others, was Henson's partner for 27 years. "Jim was not perfect," he says. "But I'll tell you something--he was as close to how you're supposed to behave toward other people as anyone I've ever known...