Word: patient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wise surgeon," warned a wise 13th century surgeon, "will refrain from stealing while he is in attendance on a patient." Other maxims for medieval physicians, who found Hippocrates rather hoary: impress the patient by diagnosing his condition before examination, always tell relatives the case is very grave, assume that a fast pulse only means worry over your fee. Last week British physicians were chuckling over dozens of such memories, recalled in Call the Doctor, by Ernest S. Turner, a frequent Punch contributor whose previous social histories have deflated the egos of British reformers, admen and Blimps...
...Memorial Hospital, a Roman Catholic institution run by the Nazareth Literary and Benevolent Institute. Huggins was admitted the day before. So was Bill Slater, scheduled to undergo operation by Dr. Joseph W. Graves for correction of a hernia and removal of a diseased left testicle. In the morning, each patient got preliminary anesthetic, and was trundled off to the operating rooms. One room was reserved for Dr. Ray, one for Dr. Graves. That, said Plaintiff Huggins, was where things went wrong: he was sent with Patient Slater's chart to Dr. Graves's operating room, while Slater...
Both surgeons were a bit late, Huggins charges, and neither took the time to identify the draped figure on his operating table as his own patient. What especially outrages Huggins is that although he insists it was obvious that he had no hernia, Surgeon Graves cut into his abdomen to correct one, and although he had no testicular disease, his left testicle was removed...
Conquest (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). Waves, both cranial and oceanic. Half the program consists of film clips from a six-hour job of brain surgery by a team of Johns Hopkins doctors that cured a patient of grand mal epilepsy; the other half describes the toll that the pounding ocean has taken from men, ships and seacoasts...
...Dean's Office, patient as it is, grows weary of protecting the safety of students "from another college," as Dean Watson harriedly puts it, while Radcliffe smiles and sends her women to Harvard where she knows they will be safe...