Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year, 20,000 or more Americans develop a kind of kidney disease that is perfectly controllable if the patient can be regularly hooked to a machine that can take over the kidney's work. Yet the machines are scarce, and of the deserving victims only 1,400 get the treatment, a figure that inevitably leads to hand-wringing tales of doctors and hospital administrators who must play God, deciding which kidney patients to save and which...
...machines are highly effective, and the main obstacle to their wider use is cost, says the University of Utah's Dr. Willem Johan Kolff, who developed the artificial kidney and made the first crude model in his native Netherlands during the Nazi occupation. Kolff feels that "treatment should be done in the home, or in community centers, not in hospitals. Doctors should be left out of the picture almost entirely , they're too expensive. The doctor should only have to be brought in when there are complications...
...forbidding $15,000 a year. In light of this, Dr. Morrell M. Avram points with satisfaction to an annual average cost of only $5,000 for patients treated in his dialysis department at the Prospect Heights Division of Long Island College Hospital. This is hardly more than home treatment would cost, and since most of Dr. Avram's patients are poor, home treatment would not be practical. No less remarkable, the Prospect Heights roster lists 33 patients, more than are treated at most dialysis centers with more equipment and heavy federal financing. The unit has enjoyed no federal or state...
...crowd on Rio Branco, and for most of the country, a big cause of the current unrest is the government's arid educational policy and the rough police treatment of students protesting it. In the past three years, education's share of the national budget has dropped from 11% to 7.7% and the number of illiterate, already half the total population of 85,655,000, has slightly increased. Overcrowded Rio universities are now forced to turn away two out of three qualified applicants...
...work was made required reading by General Eisenhower for all U.S. Army officers in Europe during World War II. Bettelheim's growing reputation led him to the University of Chicago and the Orthogenic School. From its. founding at the turn of the century, the school had restricted its treatment to epileptics, spastics and other brain-damaged children. Convinced that public institutions could handle such cases, Bettelheim began replacing them with young victims of extreme psychosis...