Word: patient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-four hours after Ava Miller's story appeared in the Times, a Bellevue Hospital colleague handed the clipping to Dr. Jacob Remler, a prison-ward psychiatrist. If it was about a patient, said Dr. Remler, he didn't want to bother; he was too busy. No, no, said the other doctor, this might be a relative of Dr. Remler's wife. It was. While studying in Vienna in 1934, Dr. Remler had married another medical student-Anna Sobel...
...Snake Pit. A harrowing adaptation of the bestselling novel, with Olivia de Havilland as the mental patient (TIME...
...through this trial to be patient," he said. "There are few qualities of life that are so important. If you don't let little things disturb you at all, then you get a certain calm and peace of mind about it. That is the sort of thing that is the essence of the administration of justice. Now do that...
That Tired Feeling. Maya's famed Internist Dr. Walter Clement Alvarez gave the doctors some unconventional advice: "Often what you find in a patient has nothing to do with the case." In trying to explain why a patient has "that old tired feelin','' he said, the doctor might turn up some soft gallstones, a slightly low basal metabolism rate or a few intestinal parasites. But the doctor should remember that things like that cannot cause the great fatigue the patient complains about. The commonest cause of abnormal weariness, he said, is a "nervous breakdown," a term...
...Snake Pit. A harrowing adaptation of the bestselling novel, with Olivia de Havilland as the mental patient (TIME...