Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked for a better setting. The scattered buildings of the century-old hospital sit atop a wooded hill, and its prep-school-like appearance is in marked contrast to the dingy institutional air of Massachusetts Mental Health, the other Harvard-staffed hospital where some students go. At McLean, new patients go through a month of "work-up"--sessions with a doctor in which the patient's case history is reconstructed in minute detail. After that, a therapist is carefully selected and the patient sees him several times a week...
What it is is that in the course of exploring how other people feel, how meaningful they themselves can be to other people, and how little things mean something to them and to others when there is an interaction between the patient and the case-aide worker, they begin to discover that actually, they have a lot of feelings that they didn't know about. The group may point it out to them or the patient may point it out to them by refusing to see them one week after they've missed a session, and they hadn't thought...
...about six weeks, you begin to get a puzzlement in the group. The case-aide brings the best of intentions. Harvard students -- people in that age bracket, generally--bring a sense of omnipotence to their work: it is as a result of their good intentions that the patient will get well. It is as a result of somebody paying a little attention to him. Sometimes this actually works...
...August 1964, Wilson transplanted a kidney from a cancer victim to a patient. Then, in January 1966, he discovered that the transplant had induced in his patient the same form of cancer that had killed the kidney donor. Wilson discontinued the use of immunosuppressive drugs which had inhibited the patient's ability to reject the transplant by weakening the antibodies...
...patient's body responded by rejecting both the kidney and the cancer. Subsequently, after the drugs had been recontinued to allow a new operation, the cancer failed to reappear, indicating a complete cure...