Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS 10-11 p m)* A drama about a blind and deaf Indian girl from the slums of Singapore who is brought to the U.S. for treatment. Zia Mohyeddin is the instructor. Repeat...
...hours passed, faint hope faded to despair. Patrick was not responding to treatment, and the President decided that he must spend the night near his son. He stretched out on a hospital bed set up in a doctors' lounge on the fourth floor. Shortly after 2 o'clock Friday morning, the phone next to his bed rang, and the President was told that there was no longer any hope. The President hurried downstairs, for the next two hours waited restlessly on a straight-backed wooden chair, occasionally rising to peer through a tiny porthole, where he could...
Indeed, the Kur means more to Germans than treatment for any specific ailment. It assures them sympathy in antiseptic surroundings, connotes that the cure-guest has patriotically worked himself to exhaustion, and allows patients endless opportunity to discuss a favorite topic: food and its effect on the digestive tract. Nearly all spa patrons go on rigorous diets, which make them feel better about overeating the rest of the year. Most treatments seem worse than the ailments they aim to cure. Rising at dawn, the dedicated Kurgast gulps beakers of water whose mineral content-notably sodium chloride, sulphur and iron-makes...
Physicians were forced to the conclusion that it was the hidden, glassy membrane that had killed the President's son, despite the most resourceful treatment in U.S. medicine's most advanced hyperbaric chamber. Such a membrane is found in at least half of all preemies at post-mortem exams-which means it kills more than 25,000 premature babies each year...
...better-heeled patients soon come to see no social stigma attached to a trip to the emergency room when their own physician cannot be reached. Poorer patients who once took their non-emergency sniffles, coughs and diarrhea to daytime outpatient clinics now tend to wait for evening and treatment in an emergency room. Such a visit usually means no time off from work. Today, says Dr. Kennedy sardonically, an emergency is "anything from which the patient is suffering when he cannot reach his regular doctor...