Word: patient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospital patient who complains that the water in his bedside carafe is not fit to drink is usually right, reports the New England Journal of Medicine. In fact, the stuff could kill him. It was patients' complaints that set a team of Harvard University physicians and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital bacteriologists to checking bedside water in 24 of Boston's nongovernment hospitals. What they found was far worse than they had feared...
...carafes were "cleaned" in the utility room -along with basins, bedpans and urinals. In many cases, ice was prepared without adequate safeguards, then juggled into the carafes by employees' unwashed fingers. In one hospital a nurse emptied (but made no effort to clean) the carafe of a patient who had just died, and left it at the bedside for the next patient...
...dispense ice with tongs; use wide-mouthed carafes, of types that can be sterilized with heat, and have skilled help do this job daily in the diet kitchen. The researchers note wryly that hospital personnel spend hours figuring out just what quantity of fluids a patient gets-so why" not pay a little attention to the quality...
...Perfect Partners. Brooklyn-born Betty and Bronx-born Adolph complement each other perfectly. As a performer Betty is ironic but cool and soothing-a superior psychiatric nurse. Adolph, with his rubber-kneed strut, his wild hair and mad eyes, is clearly her patient...
...rather crude ways. An agent of the Indian Protection Service saw two Xetá women taking turns stamping on the head of a prostrate male. They explained that they were driving out a spirit that was the cause of a headache. After about 20 minutes of this treatment, the patient got up feeling fine...