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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unlike Presidents Kennedy and Nixon when they visited the Old Sod, Reagan had to contend with demonstrators who also had an acute sense of what would play on American TV. On Saturday, shortly before Reagan received an honorary doctor of laws degree at University College of the National University of Ireland, 2,000 faculty, students and other protesters attended a rival "deconferring ceremony" at which Marian Robinson, a visiting American professor who happens to be a cousin of Nancy Reagan's, read a citation denouncing the President's nuclear arms policies; three holders of honorary doctorates returned their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off to the Summit | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...face and shrapnel wounds in his legs. Seriously hurt was Susan Morgan, a Newsweek stringer whose legs and arms were fractured. Some could crawl out of the building, but others lay moaning in the wreckage for nearly an hour before being pulled out. Two hours passed before a doctor and two nurses arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Starting a New Chapter | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...common reason for seeing a doctor. It is the No. 1 reason people take medication. And yet for a variety of reasons, medical science is ill equipped to deal with pain. While the 20th century has brought remarkable advances in the treatment and in some cases the elimination of disease, doctors' understanding of pain is just beginning to emerge from the dark ages. "Pain is the weak link in modern medicine," says Dr. Josef Wang, director of the pain center at the Mayo Clinic. To begin with, medical students receive only the scantest introduction to the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlocking Pain's Secrets | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his head, hit the sand, rolled over and ran his hand across his forehead. Sure enough, there was blood. Again they carried him to the medical station. The doctor took some tweezers, picked out a few fragments of metal from his face, slapped on some adhesive bandages and sent him back to fight once more. By then, almost his entire company had been wiped out. For the third time, a shell burst near him. It tore off his leg. He did not feel a thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlocking Pain's Secrets | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the psychological element in chronic pain has often led physicians to dismiss their patients' complaints. Says Fields: "Many doctors and nurses believe that if a person responds to a placebo, the pain can't be very bad. This is a terrible mistake." Only about 5% of chronic pain patients are hypochondriacs or hysterics, according to Psychiatrist Anthony Bouckoms of Massachusetts General Hospital. "Pain itself is the reason people suffer; it is not psychopathology," he avers. And yet the most frequent question Bouckoms hears from pain patients is: "Tell me, doctor, is it all in my head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlocking Pain's Secrets | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

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