Word: pital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leary agrees it was large (almost four quarts) but says the rate of loss is more important than the vol ume. Reagan's blood loss was steady, not gushing, and doctors had no trouble in compensating with transfusions. The ma jority of gunshot victims come into a hos pital much worse off, O'Leary says. In fact, he contends that the President would probably have been all right even if treat ment had been delayed by as much as 20 minutes. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan and the nation did not have to test that judgment...