Word: patient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expressive grey-green eyes, the coolly beautiful woman saw that she was still as the world once knew her. Last week Cinemactress Gene Tierney was back in a Hollywood dressing room-back from a mental institution. Was that foreboding phrase a shame to hide? Not a bit. To ex-Patient Tierney, 37, Topeka's famed Menninger Clinic was an exultant experience...
...then break into paroxysms of action. This technique underlies this first novel by Texan Terry Southern, 34, who lives and writes in Switzerland. The book opens quietly at a posh Los Angeles clinic where Dr. Frederick Eichner, "world's foremost dermatologist," listens to the symptoms of a new patient, Felix Treevly. Six pages later the calm is shattered by a verbal and physical violence, and the book careens off on a hounds-and-hares chase that dooms Patient Treevly and involves the pragmatic Dr. Eichner in an auto crash, murder, and the machinations of a monstrous private eye named...
...position. Dwight Eisenhower, honorably intending to stay above the battle and base his case on the enforcement of law and order, had overlooked the fact that the U.S. needed moral leadership in fighting segregation. Without it, Southern moderates had no place to go. Without it, some of the most patient, effective integration programs were weakened as Southern die-hards mobilized their own legal resources to fight the battle for segregation in the name of states' rights...
...short breath, chills and fever. His doctors diagnosed gallstones. Surgeons removed the stones at an Ogden hospital-but also found a spreading cancer in the liver. A postoperative tissue study confirmed the fact; Fowles had metastases throughout his liver and bile ducts from a primary malignancy of the pancreas. Patient Fowles was given no more than 90 days to live. His wife and four children were informed; he was told only that his gallstones had been successfully removed...
...loss and despair. To really nail down a link between object loss and biological vulnerability, it is also necessary to see how some people survive personality blows without getting sick. But theoretically, health depends largely on keeping the ego intact. If it does, then a blueprint analysis of a patient's personality may become as useful in preventive medicine as the X ray. Says Schmale: "It may be possible to predict the specific circumstances under which the patient will become sick...