Word: diagnostician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil," said newly appointed Finance Minister Oswaldo Aranha last week, "is a sick patient that needs to be told the truth." The truth, as Diagnostician Aranha bluntly told it, was even worse than the patient had thought: "Our total trade debt amounts to $1 billion. We owe the U.S. nearly $500 million." At home, "the cost of living has increased 11% more in the last five months; new money in circulation has increased 4 billion cruzeiros...
...along with their fathers are likely to grow up sexually frigid, and when they marry they are candidates for indigestion and gallstones. Moreover, their husbands will probably take to drink or develop ulcers. These conclusions are reported by a Scottish physician in the eminent British Lancet. A painstaking Glasgow diagnostician, Dr. G. Gladstone Robertson did not go looking for patients to fit a prefabricated theory. Instead, he felt obliged to adopt the psychosomatic approach as the only way to explain the illnesses of hundreds of patients...
...machinations of false friends that, like Gulliver, he is rendered helpless by a network thrown about him by "little people," confessed self-seekers and greedy opportunists. Tennyson describes his situation thus: "His honor rooted in dishonor stood, and faith unfaithful kept him falsely true." Shakespeare, the master diagnostician of mental and emotional deviations, provides the remedy: ". . . To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false...
Near the end of World War I, a promising Swiss diagnostician named Max Picard left the University Hospital in Heidelberg and gave up the practice of medicine. He deserted his profession because he felt that doctors, fascinated by the mechanics of medicine, were losing sight of their patients as individuals. To get a better perspective, Picard studied philosophy, finally moved to the tiny village of Caslano, Switzerland. Now 63, he has lived there ever since, quietly writing and studying, in a one-man effort to diagnose the spiritual troubles of modern times...
...Alvarez, 66, famed Mayo Clinic diagnostician, is editor of GP, monthly journal of the American Academy of General Practice. Addressing general practitioners in San Francisco last week, Alvarez counseled against lying to a dying patient or keeping up a cheerful farce for his supposed benefit. In one way or another, the patient usually finds out or guesses what his condition is, and then his miseries are increased by annoyance at the dissembling physician. Sometimes the victim is not so much appalled by impending death as he is by the prospect of leaving his wife or husband. In that case, Alvarez...