Eight years later, the blood pressures of the surgical patients were the same as those who did not have surgery.
But none of the surgical patients died, whereas one on drug treatment did.
If the surgical patients do better, that may be because they were healthier to begin with.
There are 203 beds, 101 of them medical and 57 for surgical patients.
Only a few of these have been surgical patients.
For surgical patients, the corresponding figures were 91 percent, 88 and 72.
He joined the Army in 1943, and 1,600 wounded soldiers ended up as his surgical patients.
He could eat his breakfast in bed, and there would be no rounds for the surgical patients today.
The body hair of surgical patients may be removed before surgery.
Perhaps we could try something I used to do with surgical patients.