[Ads-l] "deteriorate" as transitive

[Wilson Gray]

On Untold Stories of the E.R., a doctor says,

"I started to be afraid that all those shocks had begun to _deteriorate his
condition_."


The patient's pace-maker/defibrillator was shocking his heart.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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