Word: copely
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...average zero to four hours of relevant lecture time. Only five of the 126 U.S. medical schools have a separate required course on the care of the dying. Physicians are taught how to cure diseases, heal patients and save lives at almost all costs, but not how to cope with life's inevitable final chapter...
...pain was so severe, Berde began by giving him an epidural that numbed his legs for several days, freeing him of pain for the first time in months. Next Alex began an intensive program of physical therapy and counseling. He learned self-hypnosis and imagery to help him cope with the pain, and Berde prescribed antidepressant medications--not because Alex was depressed but because the drugs have been found to quiet the nerve activity that causes neuropathic pain...
...team had hoped to be able to predict accurately both how people would test and how they would cope on receiving the results. "So far," says Brandt, "it's been a bust." The only predictor of test results remains age; since HD typically hits between ages 30 and 50, the older the person, the higher the chance of a negative result. As for predicting people's reactions, most preliminary hypotheses have been replaced by new ones. Contrary to expectations, for instance, married people have a harder time coping with bad news than singles (perhaps they worry about becoming a burden...
...cope with the onslaught of sourcebook-seeking students from six Harvard schools, the distribution center hired three full-time employees, with an additional five pinch-hitting at peak times of the year, according to HPPS director James R. Gill...
...took to the airwaves--what else?--to assure her flock that she too had joined the national wallow, albeit in her own private Windsor way. She begged their indulgence as she too tried--here she reached for the supreme code word of touchy-feely self-pity--to "cope." This performance was not exactly Henry II having himself ostentatiously flogged for causing the death of Thomas Becket. But it was, in its own bloodless way, mortifying--as the Queen's frenzied subjects meant...