Five Patients The Hospital Explained Author:Michael Crichton Five patients, five actual cases of men and women in urgent need of medical help rushed to Massachuetts General Hospital in the past year- — To witness their treatment, to see how hospital practice is changng in the age of the science-technology explosion, the reader is taken into Mass. General, into the receiving room, into the emergency ward, i... more »nto the operating theater, on surgical rounds, into private rooms and wards, as every kind of diagnostic or therapeutic equipment is put into action, as residents, interns, and senior staff diagnose, consult with each other, prescribe, and treat the cases of:
RALPH ORLANDO, rushed into emergency after a construction accident; his heart has stopped beating...
JOHN O'CONNOR, brought in at the point of death (fever 108 degrees) from unknown causes...
PETER LUCHESE, whose nearly severed hand is reattached by a team of surgeons in a six-hour operation...
SYLVIA THOMPSON, whose sudden illness on a Boston-bound plane was diagnosed over closed-circuit TV in the hospital's Logan Airport Medical Station...
EDITH MURPHY, the diagnosing of whose rare disease, lupus erythematosus, demonstrates the benefits of being a patient in a teaching hospital--and the drawbacks.
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