Word: patient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Talcott Parsons, professor of Sociology, will deliver the first of two lectures on "The Doctor-Patient Relationship," to be presented Feb. 3 and 10 at 5 p.m. in the ampitheatre of Building D at the Medical School...
...Patients of this type, say Allergists Thomas G. Johnston and Alan G. Cazort, react simply to pressure on the skin. When the allergist applies a patch containing a suspected cause of allergic reaction, the patient reacts all right-but to the pressure of the patch, not to the supposedly allergenic substance. In their practice the doctors found that many patients who say they are allergic to wool are actually irritated by the wool's rough fibers: properly conducted patch tests show that they do not react to pure wool, or the wool in their particular sweaters. For girls, wearing...
There is a simple way to weed out patients who are "allergic to everything": apply two patches with equal pressure, one patch containing suspected allergen and the other inert. If the reaction is the same, the patient has dermographia...
...father's firm, but she left him, and, even worse, the old tightwad gave him only one raise in six years. Eventually their respective spouses return, and after a helpful exchange of advice, the couples retire to patch up their differences in classic fashion. "Honey," pleads the patient buddy just before the final curtain, "please don't put that Vicks Vapo Rub on your chest...
...through, to give more than is asked for or required in any given situation . . . dependability . . . independence of thought and action . . . the capacity to cooperate. The mature person is pliable and can alter his own desires according to time, persons and circumstances. He is tolerant, he is patient, he is adaptable...