Word: patient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Dawson of Penn, King George's chief physician, was enjoying a quiet luncheon in Paris in the assumption that the royal patient whom he had tended for 29 weeks was fully convalescent. Came an urgent telephone call from Windsor. Swallowing his coffee hastily Lord Dawson rushed to Le Bourget Field and hurtled through the air to England...
...distant U. S., signalized the finality and success of the efforts of his fellow delegate, Owen D. Young. The press of all nations concerned joined in thoroughgoing applause for the onetime New York plowboy who, real author of the so-called Dawes Plan of 1924 and patient chairman of the so-called Second Dawes Committee, had at last had his name written into the history of world finance as author of the now-agreed-to Young Plan...
From snow-clogged central Manitoba last week went out the account of what an epidemic may mean to an isolated community. In early May typhoid fever appeared at Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay. The nearest hospital was 183 miles away at The Pas. A few patients got through the blizzard. Twelve, on a train, with three score nurses, physicians and railway employes, were snowed in. Three locomotives could not pull them free. Food grew low. Snow was melted for drink. Engine fires were killed to save fuel. Telephone poles were chopped down for more heat. After days a dog team...
When a tortured patient begs his doctor for a lethal drug to end the misery, what is the doctor to do? The patient may be mangled in an accident. He may have cancer, syphilis, some other horror. He wants to die quickly, painlessly. Will the doctor help? Always the answer is "no." But sometimes the action is, silently, covertly, yes; for, although ending another's life or helping him to do so is murder before the Law, an overdose of merciful morphine can always be defended...
...Manhattan, Dr. Joseph Thoms called on a Chinese patient, Tom Yin, asked for a fee. Tom Yin shot him five times, poured scalding water on his head, fled. Dr. Thoms is in a hospital, Tom Yin in jail...