Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first use, this is probably a result of overexpectation, apprehension about the unknown, and the pervasive awareness of doing something illegal. This last aspect is one reason that photographed pot parties often look furtive and clandestine. "The first time I ever smoked pot, I got upset, frightened and sick," says a mid-thirtyish Chicago housewife...
...remembers being wakened. "The baby cry again," she says. "The baby needs to be feeded, and got to get the bottle. The baby was crying." Now her voice becomes a whimper. "He was crying. He was crying. I said what's wrong with you. The baby's sick. The baby's sick. The baby's sick." She sobs hard. "Help! The baby's mouth! It's getting dark. I don't know why. I don't know why. My baby sick. My baby sick." Dr. Johnston moved to a scene 16 days...
...woman with a sick six-month-old baby is turned away from a private hospital in Houston because her husband does not have $50 for a deposit. The baby dies on the way across town to an other hospital. A New York doorman suffers a heart attack while on duty; he is refused emergency treatment at a hospital across the street because it lacks cardiac emergency equipment, and he must risk death attempting to reach another hospital...
Dumping the Sick. At New Yorks Coney Island Hospital recently, a combination of delayed treatment and the common practice of "dumping" emergency patients on other hospitals contributed to the deaths of two men. The emergency-room diagnosis for one was gastrointestinal hemorrhage and shock. Claiming a lack of beds, the hospital ordered the patient transferred to a larger institution. Still waiting for transfer three hours later, the man died. An other patient died after waiting six hours to be dumped. Subsequently, New York State's Investigation Commission found that on one of the patients' entry cards, the word...
...root causes of the social, mental, and physical disease faced by doctors of the poor, a medical approach to social work can make the ticklish problem of "getting into" a family easier. It's not respectable to be poor or unemployed, but it's respectable to be sick...