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...eight-member ensemble played these difficult pieces with considerable flair. All of the instrumentalists--Gloria Cheng on piano, Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick on cello, Arthur Jarvinen and Amy Knoles on percussion, Robin Lorentz on violin, James Rohrig on clarinets and Dorothy Stone on flutes--showed amazing versatility and intensity...
Most doctors know that visitors often do more to stir up hospital patients than to soothe them. But the doctors' own ward rounds can have the same effect, sometimes with fatal results, reported Finnish Doctor Klaus A. J. Jarvinen in the British Medical Journal...
Studying the histories of 39 Helsinki hospital patients who died of coronary occlusion after stays of seven to 42 days, Dr. Jarvinen discovered that six of them, subject to severe emotional stress, had died during or after a physician's visit. Among the cases...
What precautions can the doctor take to avoid bringing on emotional upsets in such high-strung patients? Jarvinen's suggestion: physicians should maintain easy, sympathetic attitudes, try to soothe the patient's anxieties. Most important, hospitals should play down the importance of ward rounds. Nurses should not bustle and fuss, sprucing up a patient and remaking his bed, before the doctor comes...
...Seattle, a federal grand jury quickly indicted Jarvinen for giving false information to the Government. Maximum penalty: $10,000 fine and five years in prison...