Word: clinician
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...REDFIELD JAMISON IS A world authority on manic depression. She co-wrote the definitive medical text on the disease, which is also known as bipolar disorder. She has been a valued clinician and teacher, first at the University of California, Los Angeles, and now at Johns Hopkins. As a fellow at Oxford, she pioneered research into the link between creativity and manic depression. In concerts, television programs and a lay book, Touched with Fire (1993), she has popularized that research, identifying as manic depressive such luminaries as Vincent van Gogh, Robert Schumann and Lord Byron...
...There were people coming one day and seeing one clinician, then coming in the next day with the same condition and seeing another one, and again the next day with a third one," Rosenthal said. "Those people who had [the same] primary care technician ranked their services at the `good to excellent' level as opposed to the `fair' or `poor' level...
Rosenthal stressed the importance of consistently seeing one clinician. "You are going to be here for at least four years--I think it's important to establish a primary care relationship," he said. "[It is] this continuity of health care that will get people better faster...
...Stand On is a neurological account of his recovery from severe muscle and nerve damage suffered in a tumble during a 1976 hiking trip in Norway. After writing the book, he slipped and injured his other leg. It was awkwardness, however, that led to his becoming a clinician. In California, Sacks worked in a lab with disastrous results. He absentmindedly misplaced data and once accidentally dropped his lunch into a centrifuge. It was clear he wasn't suited for research...
...students and staff were seen on a walk-in basis. They came in, took a number, and waited two to three hours, unless there was an emergency," he said. "Now there is access and continuity. Everyone can register for a 'contact' name and develop an association with a clinician who knows your history...