Word: patient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Terming socialized medicine "not an issue today," Neuberger concentrated on the "need for greatly expanded Federal aid to medical research." The government's role in medicine, he said, is not "to infringe on the doctor-patient relationship, but to provide medical tools and knowledge"--"You can't go to the corner drugstore and buy cancer research," he pointed...
...four years since Nikita Khrushchev, that gregarious, loquacious and energetic fellow, took command in Russia, the world has never ceased to marvel at the difference in temperament between him and the grim, patient, secretive Joseph Stalin. To some nervous Western leaders, Nikita's engaging expansiveness even seemed to make him the more dangerous foe. Yet last week impulsive Nikita Khrushchev made precisely the same kind of crucial error in judgment that dogged the career of Stalin...
...enlarged heart with irregular beat, blood pressure of 250/130. Within six weeks, on reserpine, he improved (no headaches, less dizziness) and gave up abstractionism for expressionism. The doctor pushed the treatment: the heartbeat became regular, blood pressure dropped to 160/100, and the leg pain got better. The patient switched again-to primitivism. Dr. Bontzolakis was delighted. But two years later the man returned in worse shape than before, with blood pressure up again. What had happened? He had backslid through expressionism to abstractions, had quit his medicine, and was painting wilder canvases than ever...
...Some patients have felt short-lived pain relief merely from implantation of the electrode. But all eventually need stage three: a week after implantation, the doctors send a gentle electric current through the electrode to find out whether the patient feels a tingling in his fingers, arm or foot (always on the side opposite the electrode). This gives yet another check on placement. Finally they use a strong enough current, under anesthesia, to destroy a small part of the thalamus...
...might save him. Against a background of native political unrest, Chance becomes part of Macgrady's crowd. He goes to dope parties in the native quarter, drinks only a little less than Macgrady, and has the bad luck to fall in love with his patient's beautiful young wife Anna...