Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known admiringly in the medical profession as "the great white palace"-officially, the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. At one side, overlooking both the river's traffic and the swirling autos of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive, rises the nine-story building of the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic...
...this 108-bed hospital ranks with the nation's best and most progressive in applying the newest of medical disciplines-and one of the most complex -to the healing of ailing humanity. Equally important, it carries on psychiatric research and a comprehensive teaching program. Interestingly enough, the clinic perpetuates an old tradition, for New York Hospital, the city's first, pioneered 150 years ago in replacing Bedlam's chains and floggings with kindly "moral management" of the mentally...
Lost Proportions. The Payne Whitney Clinic* does not ordinarily accept patients who appear incurable (and whose care most often must devolve upon state hospitals), though a few may be admitted for study or special treatment. It is devoted in the main to intensive, hopeful treatment of the curable, as "curable" can be defined at this stage of psychiatric progress. Payne Whitney's achievement scores, like its methods of treatment, are typical of the institutions in its class: each year, with an average of 225 admissions, it discharges about 150 patients as recovered or substantially improved. But to the psychiatrists...
...Granting that cortisone is not the "fountain of life" that many sufferers hoped that it would be, Hench inveighed against too much timidity in the use of the drug, which he said had raised "as many false fears as false hopes." In four years' use at the Mayo Clinic, he said, cortisone has proved effective in more than 50% of the thousands of patients receiving it. Moreover, experience has shown physicians how to deal with some of the undesirable side effects, e.g., hypertension, psychosis, by careful dosage and the combined use of hormones with other drugs. Even...
Beclouded Aim. When the bill first came before Watkins' immigration subcommittee two months ago, McCarran promptly demanded a ten-day delay of the hearings while he took his wife to the Mayo Clinic. Watkins was willing. Then McCarran wandered on to Los Angeles, began holding hearings on another subject, and blandly asked Watkins for three more weeks' delay. He was refused, and the immigration hearings began-over the roaring protests of Idaho's Welker. Then, three weeks ago, at a meeting of the parent Judiciary Committee, Pat made his slickest move-a resolution calling for further delay...