Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl we had finally learned to say no. She couldn't stand to hurt anybody's feelings, but the patient kept asking to kiss her and she spent almost a whole year just learning to say no. For her to learn that was a very important part of her growing...
...Patients are very much like children sometimes. They sense things without understanding them. They are sometimes frightened of what they sense, so it is occasionally appropriate for the case-aide to be aware of what he is feeling so he can explain something about the topic or problem in a way that the patient can understand...
...basic, but you can only be honest about what you know about yourself. You cannot equate honesty with brutality. In Hannah Green's book, the doctor was not brutal with the child. She did finally say, "I never promised you a rose garden." But it was only whenthe patient was ready to hear it, and had discovered that the world wasn't going to be a rose garden...
...discourage the reading of any records until after they've known the patient for at least six months. When finally they see the records, inevitably they say the record doesn't help one bit. Actually, the record is very useful to a professional, but for accomplishing what you're trying to accomplish as a case-aide, the record may be useful for finding out that the patient doesn't really have a sister, or didn't really kill his child, or has in fact held good jobs, but what is the good of knowing about the truth of a sibling...
...nurses and attendants are nasty, vicious people." This is not true! And when case-aides see a nurse say to a patient, "Damn it, get up! Get out of here!" they protest, but it may be exactly what that patient needs, and they may find themselves saying the same thing four months later