Word: patient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delicate question of calling in consulting physicians with or without the consent of the attending doctor is the first to be discussed. Here Doctor Hawes is entirely on the side of the patient, and does not spare his fellow-practitioners who object to having their judgment questioned. On the other side of the picture he arraigns the excitable patients who send for their doctor at unreasonable hours on slight pretexts...
...capable and comprehensive is the book that one's only regret is that the author failed to deal with the much-debated problem of how much a patient should be told of his condition. With this exception, however, it keeps to its profession of frankness and is well worth the purchase of anyone interested in knowing the whys and where fores of the advice their doctor gives them
...surgeon, about to make a transfusion, scientifically matches a donor's blood to his patient's to such purpose that no shock results. In like manner Congress has ordained that Immigration shall be scientifically matched to the U. S. racial bloodstream...
...thought to be ulcers of the stomach under the supervision of Dr. P. H. Means '17, Medical Adviser at the University. A slight relapse caused his being taken to Phillips House two days ago, but Dr. Porter's examination seems to point toward the future recovery of the patient...
...with a stuffy head, running nose and red eyes took a woe-begone seat in Dr. Grafton Tyler Brown's consultation room, in Washington. Dr. Brown eyed the patient diagnostically and stated: "You have hayfever." The stuffy head snufflingly: "Yes!!" Dr. Brown scraped the man's skin and tested it with every protein he suspected might have caused the hayfever. One protein reacted positively. Stated Dr. Brown: "You have a parrot in your home." Patient snuffled: "Yes." Dr. Brown: "Get rid of the parrot." The patient did so and never after had stuffy head, running nose, red eyes...