Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nurses and Debby's intimate friends. Yet this rather sympathetic portrayal could lead one to think that the insane are cured by kind words and firm control. Once again, Page's superficial treatment destroys the story: Debby's psychoanalysis seems suspiciously easy as the psychiatrist magically gains her patient's trust and provides Debby with facile revelations...
...that Page only hints at Debby's massive conflicts between sexuality and guilt, since his freak-show depiction of her ward--filled with raving, often violent psychotic women--seems designed to shock, rather than sadden, the audience. Grotesque scenes of Debby burning her arm with a cigarette or a patient writhing with sexual frustration substitute titillation for understanding. Debby's self-mutilation horrifies us, but, ignorant of the roots of her madness, we are spared the terror of recognizing our own insecurity in her self-hate...
Although physical and medical conditions at Kalaupapa improved steadily as the patient population reached its peak of 1,180 in 1890, most patients remained contagious and suffered the progressively crippling and deforming effects of the disease. Many appeared to lose their noses because the bone is absorbed into adjacent tissues. The same thing happened to the finger bones; the fingers do not become gangrenous and drop off, as many scare stories have it, but the bones are gradually broken down and absorbed until the hand is left with only short stumps where fingers and thumb should be. Foot drop-paralysis...
...tuberculosis, isoniazid was used. Still newer drugs include the potent antibiotic rifampin, and even thalidomide, which is administered to treat complications, but not for women of childbearing age. Collectively, these are indeed wonder drugs: when used promptly to treat newly discovered cases, says Koch, they can usually make the patient noncontagious within a week...
...think community support has been nothing short of tremendous," Campbell said Saturday after his squad bowed to the Crimson 21-7. "People have been aware that we're building and have been reasonably patient. I think we'll slowly get better and better...