Word: curely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is an old Indian saying that the quickest cure for a headache is to cut off one's head. Mr. Hyland. if he were to be a doctor and practicing amongst the oppressed peoples of India, would, by this criterion, be a really effective doctor...
...abruptly departs from its civilian equivalent. "Our aim is not to please the patient," - says Murray. "At home, the psychiatrist's orientation is toward kindness, consideration, tender loving care. Here, to be kind would be to send your patient home." The purpose of military therapy, however, is not cure but amelioration. It is to get a disabled fighting man back on the line-or, if possible, to keep him on the line...
...standing containers of water, to fill in ruts, potholes and other potential mosquito-breeding sites. Hanoi newspapers are urging the citizenry to "kill mosquitoes and larvae, prevent mosquitoes from biting," and closely supervise "daily sanitation in houses, gardens and streets." There is neither a preventive vaccine nor a specific cure for the fever. A patient's biggest asset is a constitution strong enough to see him through the five or six critical days. Treatment is palliative at best. The most advanced medication suggested by Hanoi authorities is a fermented mixture of green beans, horse-radish and earthworms...
...business community worry that rising unemployment or the approach of the 1970 elections may cause the Administration to lose its nerve and ease its battle against inflation too soon. After four years, the disease is too deeply embedded in the economy to be susceptible to a quick cure...
Daytop Village, with its encounter-group therapy and treatment of ex-addicts by other ex-addicts, has a 90 per cent cure rate. The Federal hospital at Lexington, Kentucky is three per cent successful. The surrogate family, the supplemental love and caring seem essential. Methadone, government administered maintenance programs for addicts, and jails seem the kind of shortcuts on which everyone gets lost...