Word: patient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonders whether he shouldn't be more serious-minded. This beautiful notion is implanted in him by an uplifted, though agreeably carnal, society woman, and involves him in a mess of ideas about immortality and Loyalist Spain. It takes all the skill of the playwright's clever, patient wife (Katharine Cornell) to give his plays, and her life, a happy ending...
...before the importance of preventive and curative measures in the control of disease, group practice offers numerous advantages over the individual physician. Under this new system, it is easy for a case to receive a complete diagnosis by experts in several fields. Although the personal relationship between physician and patient suffers in group practice, the saving in time and cost more than counterbalances this loss. The enormous reduction in overhead expense, caused by the elimination of duplication in laboratory equipment and office space, can serve both to make possible lower fees for patients and a relatively higher and more stable...
Ascitic fluid is a clear yellow serum, similar to blood, but more watery, containing neither red nor white blood corpuscles. It collects in the swollen abdomens of persons suffering from dropsy, a condition resulting from cirrhosis of the liver or certain types of heart disease. To relieve pain the patient's abdomen is tapped, and the fluid drained out. Often as much as 410 ounces is withdrawn, and the patient is glad...
...base of the skull, gently pushes aside the soft cerebellum in order to bare the acoustic nerve. After removing the tumor he resettles the cerebellum, tightly stitches down the tough flap of neck muscle. The bone is not replaced, for the muscle-patch is strong enough to protect the patient from injury. The entire operation is performed under a local anesthetic, which deadens only the scalp nerves. Strangely enough, gentle manipulation of a bare brain produces no pain...
...head out on Highway 66 for the land of plenty promised in a come-on California handbill. With them - the 13th passenger -goes lanky, philosophizing Preacher Casy, hillbilly Moses turned rustic socialist. Hero of the Joads is tall, homely son Tom, a paroled convict. Heroine is Ma Joad, strong, patient, dreaming of "a white house with oranges growin' around...