Word: patient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours before dawn, a bleary-eyed night porter at The Hague's stuffy Hotel des Indes (named for The Netherlands' once vast and profitable colonies) opened the heavy oaken door for a weary guest, who went promptly to his room, and to sleep. He was slim, patient Jan Herman van Royen, able career diplomat and chief Dutch troubleshooter at The Hague Round Table Conference, which had been called to settle the differences between Indonesia and The Netherlands (TIME, Sept. 5). Van Royen had just wound up a crucial committee meeting which seemed to assure the conference...
...This patient's present complaint is diarrhea, nausea, nervous instability and mental depression. He does not suffer from indigestion at the present time . . . has two or three highballs before dinner . . . smokes three or four cigars daily...
...emeritus professor Dr. Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, skilled neurosurgeons cut away important nerve connections in the prefrontal brain lobe (a seat of reasoning) and the thalamus in the rear of the brain (a way station for emotional responses). The operation's aim: helping the patient to a better adjustment with his environment...
Then Dr. Duncan tried Waksman's supposedly dangerous drug on the patient. Within a few hours the infection was licked, and a few days later the fat farmer walked out, pain-free for the first time in years. Says Dr. Duncan: "There may not be many cases like this, but if we can save only one or two patients a year with a drug like neomycin, that drug has justified its existence...
That the quality of the food was really inferior both as regards choice of foods and as regards preparation, and that this is not merely the protest of one spoiled or squeamish patient is best attested by the constant lines to the lavatory. And certainly the standard of the Houses at Harvard is not too high to be met by a hospital...