Word: patient
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...Just Listen." The doctors agreed that the best thing they can do for such patients is to let them vent their feelings and not censure them. No one will go to a doctor and complain merely of unhappiness, because that is not acceptable, but unhappiness along with constipation is acceptable, and the doc tor must treat both. He can prescribe medication for the constipation easily enough, but for the unhappiness, said Dr. Stainbrook, he must offer the treatment recommended by British Psychiatrist Michael Balint: his time, his personality and his attention. He can do this merely by listening attentively...
...Stainbrook and others emphasized that they were not saying that every family doctor should become a part-time psychiatrist. But they agreed that family doctors should recognize that in at least half their cases the patient is using the apparent part of his illness in an effort to say something that he cannot express any other way. Only in a minority of cases is this difficulty of communication severe enough to require a psychiatrist...
Every day, ulcers claim 4,000 new victims; every year, surgeons put about 150,000 ulcer patients on the operating table. There are half a dozen major types of surgery for ulcers, plus a dozen minor variants. Some of them are al most a century old, but physicians and surgeons still cannot concur on which type of operation is the best, or even which is best for any particular patient...
...opinion is not unanimous, even in Boston. Dr. Marshall K. Bartlett of Massachusetts General Hospital told the Boston Surgical Society that with several satisfactory operations available, the surgeon's biggest problem is to choose the right one for each patient. He compared the various operations by their results in terms of death rate, recurrence rate and prevalence of the distressing "dumping syndrome." Dr. Bartlett's most definite conclusion was that old-fashioned subtotal gastrectomy carries too great a risk to be considered for most patients, though it may still be the best in special cases...
Hamburg has been patient with Durrell. His first play, Sappho (TIME, Sept. 8, 1961), opened there and ran for all of twelve performances. But Hamburg's theater-minded populace just could not believe that the author of vitally dramatic novels could write twice like a wooden Indian. So Durrell's second play, Act is, was staged there too. It lasted 26 performances...