Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Skillful Neglect. A good family doctor, observes Hyman, possesses two potent assets not to be found in a laboratory: sympathy and reassurance. Large doses of these healing agents, he says, should be carried in every doctor's kit. Other Hyman hints...
...great majority of human ailments tend towards spontaneous recovery." A doctor must know when to apply "skillful neglect"; i.e., just tell the patient he is going to get well without treatment, or give him a harmless pill...
...Hall. It is really every bit as good as it is cracked up to be, with superb acting and direction contributed by Olivier, with help from Reen Asherton and other British stars, and outstandingly original music by William Walton. If you have not yet seen it, by no means neglect the chance--and even if you have, it would probably be worth a second viewing...
Decrying both professionalism and complete de-emphasis such as that practiced by the university of Chicago, he called for a middle road which recognized the value of athletics and yet did not neglect other educational values. Buck emphasized in his speech that education did not consist essentially of cramming knowledge into students, and that the real educational purpose of creating character could be assisted by extracurricular as well as curricular activities...
...half so aware as she is-that he has given his wife only perfunctory attention for some time, preoccupied as he is with his work as a teacher and scholarly writer. They look forward to their vacation with quite different intentions: he to make up for his neglect, she to force a showdown about it. The showdown takes a form neither had expected when Grandin falls in love with a handsome Marine captain...