Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Royal House of Washington, we would never have to critique our president on grounds of photogenic attributes instead of his or her political agendas. Their families would not get flak for not being quite perfect, if the rather antiquated 1950s illusion of the white working father, patient housewife, and 3.4 children living in the house with white picket fence might serve as the image of the perfect family. It wouldn't really matter if the president was an adulterer. We could pick presidents solely on the basis of their political issues. Such a system would also force candidates to clarify...
...experiencing a phenomenon that anesthesiologists delicately call "awareness." These unexpected wake-ups occur in at least 40,000 of the nation's 20 million annual surgeries, according to Emory University anesthesiologist Peter Sebel, who has studied the problem. In most cases the pain-killers keep working, and all the patient feels is the unnerving pressure of a scalpel cutting and scraping. But, Sebel estimates conservatively, in at least 400 such awareness accidents, the pain breaks through the veil of drugs. It's possible, say other experts, that the number of patients who wake up each year to excruciating pain...
...humiliation is not just for women. Tracy, who went on to found a support group called AWARE (Awareness with Anesthesia Research Foundation), tells of one male patient who woke up to a female nurse holding up his penis and laughing about its diminutive size...
...Roxbury's Egleston Corner, PIH has focused on alleviating domestic violence as well as improving patient follow-ups and prescribed drug use, according to the release...
Michelson says that the faculty members who interview the candidates are often physicians who are used to taking patient histories, so she encourages students to answer questions as honestly and openly as possible...