Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Done for Me Lately?", while the others are short vignettes written by four Radcliffe undergraduates. "What Have You Done for Me Lately?" is political art at its best, for it entertains first and instructs second. Lamb's play opens in the recovery room of a hospital as the male patient (Gary Kowalski) awakens to the piercing stare of the female surgeon (Louisa Hufstader). After watching him for several minutes, she reveals the nature of the operation she has just performed: an impregnated uterus has been implanted in his body. Yes, he will experience considerable discomfort, she tells him, "but nothing...
...EXCELLENT PERFORMANCES by Kowalski and Hufstader, pregnant patient and principled physician run through the standard arguments for and against abortion. This time, however, the sex roles are reversed: Man is the desperate, powerless victim, and woman the smug, powerful perpetrator. To his cry that he has the right to pursue a career he's worked hard to establish, the feminist surgeon ironically answers that the unborn also have rights and that even one transgression of these rights would set an evil precedent. When he says he'd like to kill her, she replies that often "the impregnated wants to kill...
Also "not abnormal" for the pregnant, he asks many times, "Why me?" The audience then learns that doctor and patient had been lovers in college, and that he ended the affair when he learned that she was with child. She then swore revenge and celibacy, and her vow strengthened as she charted his career as a politician who came out against abortion. When she informs him that the hospital has a special committee which will consider his request for termination of the pregnancy, he promises that, given a second chance, he'll be more sympathetic to her cause. He then...
...After learning what it's like to be a doctor and a patient, whether they end up as a doctor or not, they will have a broader understanding of basic life questions," he says...
Symposium on Ancient Medicine--Therapeia: Doctor and Patient in Ancient Medicine. Sponsored by Greek and Latin. Lecture by Ruth Padel, Lecturer in classics, Oxford and Cambridge Universities on "A Doctor in the Nous: Greek Perceptions of Human Beings which create the Doctor's Way," 10:15-12 a.m., Room 264, Science Center...