Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said Alan recently moved from the chronic stage of leukemia to its acute stage, which means the patient only has one or two months left to live...
...When a patient is looking for a donor, his best possible chance to find a suitable donor is through his own ethnic community," she said...
Donation involves the extraction of bone marrow from the hip while the patient is under general or local anesthesia. Donors can go home after a few hours or rest in the hospital overnight. In a healthy individual, the body replaces the lost marrow, leaving no permanent damage...
Readings in the substantially weighty sourcebook include articles on Taiwanese folk healers, Aztec religion, African divinity systems, the doctor-patient relationship, American medical ethics and the assumptions inherent to Western medicine...
...others with similar injuries, he says, "You've got to be patient. You have to listen to doctors and do what they tell you. There's going to be up days and down days, and some times you might think your leg's going to get bigger. But keep thinking about being back...