Word: patient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having handed the Congress his prescription for quieting the flutterings of the U.S. economy (TIME, July 18), President Truman was now trying to explain the formula so that the patient itself could understand it. All the country really needed, Harry Truman believed, was the proper dosage of public works, some other financial therapy from Washington (the Fair Deal's economic and social legislation) and the close cooperation of business, labor, agriculture and government...
...Rhoads read the scientific sections of the cover story before publication and found no error in them. After the issue was on the newsstands the father of one Memorial patient, a 16-year-old boy, read the story and set out to buy 100 newsstand copies to send to friends...
...With the patient care of a scientific researcher gathering evidence, Professor Huxley reviews the enslavement of Soviet scientists. The test case is biology, his own science. He tells how, step by step, Trofim Lysenko, a "scientifically illiterate" plant-breeder, was enthroned as absolute boss of Soviet biology with all his opponents "dismissed or disgraced." Dr. Huxley knows Lysenko and considers him a better politician than a scientist. In conversations he found that Lysenko and his followers "simply do not talk the same language as Western men of science." Much of Professor Huxley's long article consists of quotations from...
...last week the gadget, called the oxyhemograph, had been used on 300 patients; 110 were heart cases, including 30 "blue babies." Two of the patients owe their lives to the oxyhemograph. One blue baby was saved by quick administration of oxygen when the chart showed a sudden dangerous lowering of blood oxygen. The other patient was having an operation on his knee when he swallowed his tongue and started to choke. The chart gave warning in time. The machine has proved especially useful in long operations and in all operations on the heart. It can tell the surgeon, even before...
...this story-which "could continue indefinitely"-neatly sums up the Eastern attitude to life and fate. In Indo-China, where Surgeon May spent eight years of his life, his native assistant smiled when May postponed lunch to operate on an emergency case. To what end? the assistant asked. The patient was of the coolie class, too starved to live much longer anyway. And who could be sure that death was not better than life? "In these parts," the assistant told him, "we think human life has no value; it will be hard to persuade us that...