Word: patient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...played by British Actor Leo Genn (recently seen in Mourning Becomes Electra and memorable as the sardonic Lord Constable of France in Henry V), Dr. Kik is the ideal psychoanalyst-patient, handsome, experienced and endowed with a deep, beautiful voice as intricately gentle as a surgeon's hands. He is the perfect Freudian knight and the picture's real hero...
...American Psychiatric Association has set minimum standards for mental hospitals: at least one psychiatrist for every 150 patients, one graduate nurse for every 40, one attendant for every eight, an outlay of at least $5 a day per patient for food, care and treatment. Says Deutsch: "Not a single state mental hospital in the U.S. meets, or has ever met, even the minimum standards set by A.P.A. in all major aspects of care and treatment." The current average in state mental hospitals, he says, is $1.25 a day per patient...
...Chicago last week the American Academy of Dermatology and Syphilology got a pointer from Temple University Psychiatrist O. Spurgeon English: look for emotional troubles in a patient with eczema. "He cannot weep but his skin weeps for him. Eczema patients are usually depressed, and long for love, but they can't stand love when they get it." Love, English summarized, "is an itch one can't scratch...
Such conflicting testimony was sad news to Vermont's Senator Ralph E. Flanders, committee chairman, who had hoped to find a meeting of minds on what new corporation taxes, if any, should be imposed. But though patient Senator Flanders had still to hear from more businessmen, it looked as if he-and Congress-would need all their patience to find a statesmanlike middle ground...
...Second Thought. In Akron, authorities at Peoples Hospital apologized, decided that, all things considered, they had better not charge a woman patient for the tonsillectomy which had been performed on her by mistake...