Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Psychotherapy has not yet been proved more effective than general medical counseling in treating neurosis or psychosis. In general, therapy works best with people who are young, wellborn, well educated and not seriously sick. The more like the therapist, the more curable the patient...
...instance, sells for less than $2,000 in the U.S., as much as 50% lower than comparable U.S. makes. What now disturbs Kawakami is not competition but the present state of human patience. "I wonder," he muses, "if in a decade there will be enough people in the world patient enough to learn to play the piano...
...limits of the Catholic church establishes a bridge to our 'separated brethren' and enlarges the order of the church as such. And God's work among our brethren establishes a common ba sis from which the attempt must be made to continue a sincere fraternal and patient dialogue in which the issues which divide us can be clarified. This we view as the first step of the road along which God can ultimately lead us to each other...
Wrist Radio. So far, most microcircuitry goes into space-age uses, but it raises vast possibilities for new products. Tiny microcircuit radios have been built that can report back medical information from inside a patient's stomach. In industry, the most widespread use will be to make computers faster and more compact. No consumer products have been turned out yet, but in the labs the entire circuitry of a TV set has been reduced to the size of a soda cracker; this may eventually lead to the long-heralded TV set that hangs on the wall like a picture...
Good health carries with it some kind of immunity to cancer; even when cancer cells are injected or implanted under the skin of a healthy person, they die off and cause no disease. Cancer patients lack this immunity, and cancer cells from another victim will grow for a while in their bodies. Researchers at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute discovered these two basic facts years ago by injecting cancer cells into themselves, into prisoner-volunteers at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, and into cooperating patients with advanced cancer, at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital. But a nagging question remained...