Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Explaining the agency's objection to any combination of antibacterial drugs, Commissioner Herbert L. Ley Ir. says: "The use of two or more active ingredients in treating any patient who can be cured by one is irrational. It exposes the patient to an unnecessary risk. Antibiotics should be used like a rifle, not like a shotgun...
...left I remembered what a patient had told me when I'd first come...
...year I had worked with a patient trying to bring him out and stimulate his interest in some direction. Often he'd gotten up and left at the first opportunity. It was easier to withdraw, to live in a fantasy world. Other people, other tings disrupt that self constituted equilibrium and bring to mind the memory of an inability to cope with the trials of the real world. The reclusive life of a mental hospital is a respite from the anguishing pace of "the outside," but as time passes, unless patients maintain some sort of contact with the outside...
...volunteer begins to care about the patients he sees, he also begins to see beyond his first impressions of the hospital. On one side, the inadequacies he first saw as negligence now become more understandable. State hospitals just don't have the funds to remodel their buildings, hire 100 more doctors or raise the wages of attendants above the minimum level. It also becomes evident that the staff does not sit back and accept these limitations. For example, there is a large work program, where patients can get jobs ranging from housekeeping to masonry to work in a large greenhouse...
Once the volunteer has been around for a while, he can cite numerous programs going on within the hospital; reading classes for retarded patients, art therapies, group therapies; medications, dances, etc., etc., etc. But it is not these things that are the most impressive to him. He has felt the frustration and occasional pangs of hopelessness in working with someone who clings tenaciously to his problems. He can understand the tremendous demands placed on attendants and doctors alike, the energy which is required to understand and help a patient. To see a staff working in the fact of these odds...