Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Court of Quarter Sessions fully exonerated Dr. Markert of responsibility for this fatality. The director of anesthesia for Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, and the assistant medical examiner of New York City both testified at the trial that Freiwald's death was caused by status lymphaticus, and that the patient did not die from the cause stated in your article...
Some of the twelve scenes started toward straight satire but most of them wound up utterly cuckoo. When Savo performed a drunken surgical operation, his patient's insides yielded a number of colored balloons, a string of sausages, and finally a Punch & Judy show. As a washerwoman by a stream, he was interrupted, for no ascertainable reason, by the passing - of an invisible fox hunt, but returned to the amorous contemplation of a union suit. Time & again he was a citizen of a never-never land as fantastical as that inhabited by Krazy...
...gods are patient: they are slaves...
...jumped Physician Albert Frederick Ruger Andresen of Brooklyn. Since there is really no medical treatment for ulcers, said he with brilliant logic, there are no medical failures. Some ulcers heal of themselves. Both physicians and surgeons worry too much about stomach acids, he continued, instead of considering a patient's temperament and general condition. And operation on desperate cases which have not been doctored up "is little short of murder...
...Rhazes attended an emir who was so badly crippled that he could not walk. First Rhazes ordered the emir's best horse to be saddled and brought into the court yard. Rhazes gave the emir hot showers and a stiff drink. Then, brandishing a knife, he cursed his patient, threatened to kill him. Furious, the crippled man sprang to his feet. With his patient hot on his trail, the doctor leaped on the horse and escaped. From a safe distance, he sent an explanation: the patient's fiery temper had dissolved the already softened humors. No one knows...