Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Young Jordan was not the only patient who had to wait for treatment last week. Joining in a growing wave of protest over the rising cost of malpractice insurance, thousands of physicians in New York's nine most heavily populated counties decided to dramatize their demands by refusing to perform any but emergency services. Their action slowed admissions and operations in many hospitals to a near halt, inconvenienced thousands of patients who needed elective surgery and other nonemergency treatment, and further eroded the esteem in which Americans have traditionally held their physicians...
...very human to want to repress the ugly and the painful. But it is also very dangerous. Repression is psychological anesthesia, and like real anesthesia it becomes dangerous when the drugged patient exerts himself--feeling no pain, seeing no evidence of death, he is unaware of and unprepared for the danger from within. By not admitting that pain exists, we never find a cure, just as by not admitting that a war has been declared we never create peace, and by not admitting that imperfection exists we never reach utopia...
...Probing. In mentally dismissing the possibility of violence, a psychiatrist can take missteps with a patient that might bring on an assault. For instance, an emergency-room doctor may start a ruckus merely by coming at a patient with a hypodermic filled with a sedative, which the patient may perceive as an attack. Or an analyst can probe too insistently into a patient's emotional troubles, sparking uncontrollable anger...
...wagonload of corpses coming out as he went in, Dolgun was originally sent to the killing rock quarries, but he soon got himself assigned to easier jobs as a welder and, best of all, as a hospital assistant. Before he was through he had amputated a patient's toes and one leg and performed an appendectomy. He even managed to fall in love. The girl committed suicide in 1956 just as political prisoners began to be released...
...patient is sitting up and taking umbrage. After several dolorous books, Richard Condon, no black humorist but an eyeball-red one in the great, ranting days of The Manchurian Candidate and The Oldest Confession, seems to be stirring faintly back to life. Money Is Love does have patches so swampy that even addicted admirers will cast down their eyes in shame, but the life signs are nevertheless strong: "Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson. He swallowed hard. He held it down until...