Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although we may be perpetually busy, let us promise always to lend a steady hand, a patient ear or our time to those in need...
...hard not to pick up a little medical lore along the way. Take the final episode of E.R., for example, in which George Clooney, in his role as Dr. Doug Ross, faced censure for his unauthorized use of a procedure called ultrarapid opiate detoxification on a tiny patient--an infant born to a heroin-addicted mother. After a harrowing all-night vigil, during which the infant hovered near death, the detoxification was a success and the baby drug-free. Grateful and overjoyed, the mother pleaded with Doug...
...Thomas Kosten, of Yale University School of Medicine, who co-authored the journal review: "It's like using a cruise missile when all you need is a hatchet. It's overkill. Opiate detox is not that hard to accomplish." In May 1997 the British Medical Journal reported that a patient had died while undergoing the procedure...
According to Gary H. Manchester, a prominentplastic surgeon in San Diego who graduated fromHarvard Medical School in 1964, plastic surgeryshould be used to correct defects in collegestudents only if the potential patient feelsespecially self-conscious about his or herappearance...
...that one doubts the purity of purpose that led Redford to The Horse Whisperer, based on Nicholas Evans' best-selling, critically dissed novel about an uncannily simpatico wrangler. His patient ministrations are needed to restore psychological wholeness to Pilgrim and, more important, to Grace (Scarlett Johansson), the horse's adolescent rider, after a bloody confrontation with a truck on an icy road...