Five Patients by Michael Crichton

Author:Michael Crichton [Crichton, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sociology, Social Science, General
ISBN: 9780099601111
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Amazon: 0099601117
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1970-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

nearly severed hand is, if not commonplace, at least nothing to get very excited about.

And if, in this age of television, the surgeon shows more flamboyance than is scientifically necessary, more sense of drama than is medically indicated, he can at least be excused for upholding the traditions of his calling—and, in a deeper sense, the facts of his life.

SYLVIA THOMPSON

Medical Transition

flight 404 from Los angeles to boston was somewhere over eastern Ohio when Mrs. Sylvia Thompson, a fifty-six-year-old mother of three, began to experience chest pain.

The pain was not severe, but it was persistent. After the aircraft landed, she asked an airline official if there was a doctor at the airport. He directed her to the Logan Airport Medical Station, at Gate 23, near the Eastern Airlines terminal.

Entering the waiting area, Mrs. Thompson told the secretary that she would like to see a doctor.

“Are you a passenger?” the secretary said.

“Yes,” Mrs. Thompson said.

“What seems to be the matter?”

“I have a pain in my chest.”

“The doctor will see you in just a minute,” the secretary said. “Please take a seat.”

Mrs. Thompson sat down. From her chair, she could look across the reception area to the computer console behind the secretary, and beyond to the small pharmacy and dispensary of the station. She could see three of the six nurses who run the

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