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...surgeon, they decided, the removal of a certain amount of healthy tissue is "justifiable." This is partly because of honest mistakes in diagnosis (an appendix may turn out not to be inflamed, after all), partly because some patients are sold on surgery and demand it as a cure-all (many middle-aged women with vague symptoms beg for hysterectomies...
Once the disease strikes, with headache, backache, fever and often hiccups, the doctors can do nothing by way of cure. But they can do much to make the victim more comfortable as the disease progresses, a process marked by hemorrhages in the eyes and under the skin of shoulders and belly, bleeding from kidneys and intestines. In the first place, because of the danger of bleeding from weakened blood vessels, the patient must not be jounced around in a jeep ambulance on his way to a rear area; the medics favor evacuation by helicopter. Because the disease affects the kidneys...
...hospital, or (preferably) in time to prevent the need for admission. Another item was stepped-up research, but Tennessee's Governor Frank G. Clement contended with good reason that present knowledge is not being put to use. As he phrased it: "If we knew as much about the cure of cancer as we do about that of mental illness, there would be a medical revolution overnight...
...rooted in the farce, only squeezed out of it. In The Cocktail Party, the very symbol of a cocktail party, the central role of the psychiatrist, the prevailing Noel Coward morality and manners, expressed something immensely relevant to modern life; audiences might fiercely quarrel with Eliot's cure, but they could not deny the disease. But The Confidential Clerk pierces to the spirit without cutting through any flesh. There are moments of illumination, but in general the story, even where symbolic, remains absurd...
...have gotten the impression that the cause of most unhappiness is a low sexual charge and that to become sexually active and skillful is a sure cure for al most anything. It is not going too far to say that a large portion of the U.S. population regards sex. today with the same simple faith that their great-grandparents reserved for snake...