Word: bedridden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With the city's population zooming, general-hospital beds are getting scarcer. Besides, most of its general hospitals dislike the cavity trade, and dentists are low men on the medical totem pole, with no admission priviliges. Patients who need hospitalization for major dentistry are listed as: the bedridden, the mentally retarded, many psychiatric patients, business and professional men who want to save time by having a lot of work done at once, and any patients needing general anesthesia...
...people think that wonder drugs, such as prednisolone, which enables bedridden arthritics to walk, cost too much, said Brown haughtily, the problem is "inadequate income rather than excessive prices." In reply, the subcommittee staff brought out that Schering bought some hormone tablets at 12? per 60 from a French manufacturer, wholesaled them as "Progynon" for $8.40 with a consumer price of $14-a 7,079% markup...
...wards are the circles of a neo-Dantean inferno. In Stationary, the patients are strapped into chairs to groan, curse and soil themselves through the day. In Hydro, a patient is wrapped mummy-fashion in icy wet sheets for 72 hours at a stretch. In the "untidy" wards the bedridden turn their heads obsessively from side to side, rubbing off the hair and even the skin from their scalps. Such weekly rituals as Bath Day, when the patients are divested of rubber bands, bits of tobacco and the last shreds of dignity, are recorded with repellent candor...
...secret conferences went on in New Delhi. First, Prime Minister Nehru called at the red sandstone palace of President Rajendra Prasad. A few minutes after Nehru drove off, his daughter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the new head of the ruling Congress Party, drove up. Later, President Prasad called on his bedridden Home Affairs Minister. Finally, the decision that Nehru has so long dreaded was made...
...supposed to be one of his strongest ouangas: the grave of his father, a tailor, who died last year. Grave robbers pried open the above-ground family tomb in Port-au-Prince's cemetery, hauled out the coffin, defiled the body. The outrage was kept secret from the bedridden President...