Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interest and unemployment rates and coming up with a forecast of which way the economy will go, the Duke databank, now a part of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, correlates important information about the body--enzyme levels, age, family history--into a prediction of how a given patient will respond to a certain type of treatment. Doctors on five continents dial into the system, type in the critical components of their patient's problem and get a recommendation for treatment based on the thousands of patients who have passed that way before. And of course doctors at Duke routinely...
...shopping at a San Diego mall with her husband Eric when she felt an odd tugging on the right side of her face. Her mouth twisted into a lurid grimace. Suddenly she felt weak. "What kind of game are you playing?" asked Eric. "I'm not," Lee tried to respond--but her words came out in a jumble. "Let's go to the hospital," Eric urged her. All Lee wanted to do was go home and lie down. Fortunately, as it turned out, her husband helped summon an ambulance instead...
...unremitting test of wills in which the Iraqi leader, driven by powerful motives of survival and revenge, regularly seeks to frustrate or lash out at the U.S. while Washington strives to contain his disruptive ambitions. Whenever Saddam sends out his tanks, American planes and missiles are bound to respond: force must always be met with force under the unwritten rules of engagement heavily determined by American politics. This war will end only with the demise of Iraq's resilient bully-boy leader, and as last week's exchange of fire proved, it is far from over...
...Four weeks ago, Dr. Virendra Bisla, 49, was in a hospital outside Chicago, making rounds, when he suddenly found himself leaning against the wall. "The nurses kept asking me if I was all right," the cardiologist recalls. But even though Bisla could understand everything they said, he couldn't respond. They wheeled him to the emergency room, where doctors determined that he was suffering a stroke. Soon after, they transferred him to the specialized stroke center at the University of Illinois, where he was given TPA. "Just three hours after receiving the medication, I was able to talk again," Bisla...
Once when a family invited me to dinner, my host asked an interesting question. "Why," he wondered, "are you Americans so frantic? You're always trying to do something." It was difficult to respond--in part because I wanted to ask why the French seemed so relaxed and even indifferent. There is something in our national character that causes us to strive to be better, to work and improve. Moreover, there's the American Dream, and the notion that, for example, any of us could grow up to be president. The French really don't believe that--their presidents have...