Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rely so much on their own eyes, says Rosemary, that someone else's listening ear seems an absolute necessity. She listens to -and sometimes translates-artists' ideas and suggestions. She also audits their philosophies, criticisms (frequently of other artists) and complaints. And she has learned to be patient with artists' egos, which very frequently turn out to be alternately fragile and overpowering...
...vast majority of cases of Parkinson's disease, or "shaking palsy," physicians cannot be sure what originally caused the nerve damage that results in the patient's tremor, muscle rigidity, forward-falling posture, hasty gait and "pill-rolling" movements of the fingers. As with most diseases of which the basic causes are unknown, there is a yard-long list of drugs that have been tried; some give modest relief, but all fall far short of cure. Even radical brain surgery usually relieves only some of the symptoms. Now a new drug has been found that is more effective...
...Cotzias has reported results for 28 patients treated with L-dopa for as long as two years. In earlier trials, the drug had been given intravenously and in small doses. Cotzias gave it by mouth and built up the dosage steadily to much higher levels. Because L-dopa may decrease appetite drastically and upset the metabolic system, patients must be studied closely in a metabolic ward. Dosage must be individually tailored, even to fixing the best times of the day for each patient to take his capsules. The buildup to maximum doses takes five to seven weeks. Patients must...
Even modest improvement in severe cases may be lifesaving, Cotzias points out. One patient who for years had been unable to walk or talk, and hardly able to swallow, recovered sufficiently to walk with assistance, to feed himself, and occasionally to speak. This improvement lasted during the year that he spent at Brookhaven. He died in another hospital, from pneumonia caused by getting food in his lungs, after he had been without L-dopa for some time...
Skipping over some of the patient analysis in Osborne's script, Jory has chosen to rely entirely on a rapid flow of stage business to present his version of Porter. Jory keeps Marion Killinger pacing the stage with vicious energy, leaping onto tables, sprawling on the floor. He explains the man's anger with a series of visual and auditory irritations--the impassivity of Alison (Karen Grassle) at the ironing board, the obnoxious clang of evening bells, the black and white tedium of a litter of Sunday newspapers, constant courteous offers...