Word: patients
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...added that to measure interpersonal skills, the test, which will be included in the present Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), will have each applicant interview a patient, and will rate the candidates on ability to communicate as well as the quality of the questions asked...
...hard to save money for four or five years we could begin to recover with the help of the national economy," Kaufmann says. "But here we sit looking at a 13 per cent inflation rate." He compares his position to a doctor who keeps running tests on a sick patient to discover what's wrong, and each new test fails to work, until he begins to run out of tests altogether...
Lukash, who was running* at Carter's side when he collapsed, is rarely more than a few yards away from his most important patient during the working...
...Medicine, was launched three years ago when John Q, 37, checked in to the Boston hospital for surgery. He had malignant tumors in both kidneys, a condition that occurs in only 1% to 2% of all Americans with renal cancer and almost never before age 50. While taking the patient's history, doctors were startled to learn that one of his aunts also had kidney cancer. Turning sleuths, a team led by Dr. Robert S. Brown studied 40 family members spanning three generations. The resulting statistics were extraordinary. Of the 40, ten had renal cancer, six of them...
...causes are many. For example, pharmaceutical companies overpromote the drugs among physicians, often giving out free samples. (Said one doctor dependent on Librium: "I couldn't see any patients until the mailman came. Where other doctors would read their mail, I ate mine." Physicians in turn often seem oblivious to the dangers of the drugs. When confronted with a patient who is mentally-rather than physically-distressed, they reach for the prescription pad. Says Pursch: "If a woman walks into her doctor's office and says, 'I'm nervous, my husband drinks too much...