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...Confidences to psychotherapists and to clergymen are now privileged, a formal status they did not have before. That privilege does not cover a doctor who is asked in court about treatment of a purely physical ailment...
...When a patient's symptoms point to a definite, diagnosable disease, the treatment-surgery, drugs or other therapy-is often obvious. But what should a doctor do when the symptoms add up to no known ailment? Dr. Joseph Sapira, a Birmingham, Ala., internist, believes the physician definitely should not dismiss the complaint as imaginary. Instead, he should try "reassurance therapy," and in the Annals of Internal Medicine Sapira tells how to administer it. The first step, he says, is to elicit a detailed description of the symptoms; the next is to ascertain how they affect or concern the patient...
...cell anemia, a hereditary blood disease largely limited to blacks; supervises a home-care program for hemophiliacs; and conducts drug-treatment programs for children with leukemia. It also maintains an outpatient clinic for Cooley's anemia that currently provides ongoing therapy to approximately 55 victims of this ethnic ailment...
...uneducated healer saw as many as 300 patients a day, diagnosing and treating them in minutes. For some he suggested minor surgery, frequently performing the operations himself with a pocketknife. For others he recommended drugs, writing prescriptions for unorthodox pharmacological combinations that somehow worked. He treated almost every known ailment, and most of his patients not only survived but actually improved or recovered...
...white patients diagnosed between 1940 and 1969 in 100 hospitals throughout the country, the 217-page report contains bad news for victims of lung and pancreatic tumors. Lung cancer remains the most common type of the disease among men; the survival rate is poor and the incidence of the ailment is increasing. Life expectancy for patients with pancreatic cancers has shown almost no improvement, and this kind of tumor is becoming more common...