Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army Veteran Carl Holm, 28, voluntarily went to a veterans mental hospital in Sheridan, Wyo. When he was given town privileges, though, Holm wasted no time getting drunk and passing out on the hospital lawn. "It's my opinion," said a harried doctor after locking up the patient, "that you're a hopeless alcoholic and should spend the rest of your life in this ward...
...hospital duly went to court to ask Holm's involuntary commitment under a Wyoming law that aims to make such hearings easy on the patient. Like similar laws in a dozen other states, Wyoming's is based on a federally sponsored model code. To keep things informal, the code ironically says that a commitment hearing "shall not be bound by the rules of evidence"-the rules that bar hearsay or irrelevant testimony in any ordinary law court...
...student will be told. One doctor at the Health Center reports that the senior tutors would like to have considerably more information than they now get from the psychiatric service, but the criticism is usually in the other direction. Faculty members have charged that psychiatrists have broken patient's confidence by revealing illegitmate pregnancies or homosexual experiences to the authorities; Health Service officials absolutely deny all such stories...
...less severe rheumatic conditions involving only one or two joints, such as bursitis and "tennis elbow," DMSO may spare the patient a painful injection into the middle of the joint. Doctors disagree as to how much of a cortisone-type drug dissolved in DMSO soaks into the joint, but patients report that they feel better and they are grateful for being spared the needle...
...impressed by Rock's supermanhood that he pleads with him to seduce his priggish psychologist daughter, Leslie Caron, and thereby give her a taste of what she is missing in life. Because he owes Boyer a favor, Rock reluctantly but confidently tackles the job. He poses as a patient whose problem is that women constantly tear off their clothes the minute they see him. "What I'd give to have a body nobody wanted!" he sighs, and wonders if perhaps he shouldn't have an operation to make him ugly...