Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforce them. But Kesey's lunatics and his story are full of gaiety too-including a wild ward party complete with wine, women and song. As the Chief says admiringly of Randle P. McMurphy: "He won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain...
...Trinity-I believe in two things which are one and the same, namely that something is and that I am. . . There is no justice. How could matter be just? There is only freedom . . . the courage to commit crime, for freedom itself is a crime . . . And the screams and the pain which flood toward me from glassy eyes and open mouths, the convulsing, impotent white flesh under my knife, reflect my triumph and my freedom and nothing else...
...have an easier time in the operation, and get better faster, if he agrees to be hypnotized. Last week Surgeon Kolouch finished compiling the records of 100 patients on whom he has performed surgery with hypnosis, and concluded that in 81 cases the trance experience had saved patients anxiety, pain and money, and had speeded recovery. It also helped the surgeon, anesthesiologist and nurses...
...responded well to hypnosis. The biggest group of 57 were hospitalized for surgery of medium severity. It was among these that Dr. Kolouch had his most satisfying success. All were more relaxed during anesthesia and on the operating table. They made fast and uneventful recoveries, with little need for pain-killing drugs. In cases of thyroid removal or hernia operations, the number of doses of opiates was half the usual average and the hospital stay was also cut in half. Hypnosis is less successful in operations such as removal of the gall bladder or part of the stomach. Dr. Kolouch...
...Kolouch's prize case was a businessman of 46 who had had a mortal fear of surgery since childhood, capped by an unsuccessful operation for hernia repair at the age of 41. After this earlier operation he had needed seven doses of pain relievers and was hospitalized for five days. Moreover, the operation failed, and he suffered agony for five years because he could not face repeated surgery. Dr. Kolouch talked him into it and used hypnosis. With his unconscious anxiety and conscious fears at rest, the patient needed only one dose of an opiate...