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...gamble with their health. After twenty-three years of operation, health insurance pools have attained their crest and are now receding-today the percentage of health costs covered by insurance drops steadily. With the "traditional American approach" it is inevitable that children and adults will continue to develop chronic, incurable diseases, for many families with substandard incomes can afford neither doctor's bills nor the $150 premiums for adequate health insurance. It is time that America seek a new "tradition" in which every citizen has as much right to medical attention as he has to a free education...
...using hypnosis on yet another patient: a 29-year-old victim of Buerger's disease, a circulatory ailment heavily aggravated by smoking. After hypnosis, the patient refused to touch cigarettes, retched when one was offered. Result: steady improvement. The team hopes to extend the technique to other chronic ailments, but, warns Crasilneck: "As we see it now, hypnosis has a very definite, specific role in medicine. We don't for a moment say it is a cure...
Five years ago, Crane Operator Henry Ciesla was stricken with amyotrophic lat eral sclerosis, an incurable chronic neurological disease. Paralyzed from the throat down, he was placed in an iron lung at Buffalo's Meyer Memorial Hospital; he was not expected to live more than a year. But Ciesla refused to die. With permanent breathing and feeding tubes in his throat and stomach, he stayed cheerful, watched TV via an overhead mirror. Last week a wall-panel fuse in the hospital blew out, stopped the life-preserving iron lung. Alone in his private room, Henry Ciesla died...
Church & Athletics. Of the three Kelly daughters, Peggy was the oldest and a cutup, Lizanne the youngest and an extrovert. Grace, the middle one, born Nov. 12, 1929, was shy, quiet, and for years snuffled with a chronic cold. The big, 15-room house in plain East Falls, across the Schuylkill River from the Main Line, was the meeting place for the whole neighborhood. "There was a lawn out back with swings and a sandbox, a tennis court and the usual things like that," says Grace. Summers, the Kelly family had a house on the Jersey shore at Ocean City...
...chronic back trouble which plagues Alpers has responded well to treatment and should cause less trouble than it did in the K of "C meet, McCardy added...