Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gang remained hesitant. Said Robert Bradford, president of the right-wing Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy, Inc.: "Orthodox medicine is not qualified to evaluate Laetrile." For one thing, Bradford and his cronies objected to the Government's plan to limit any test to terminal cancer patients. The Laetrile advocates also demanded that the clinical test involve not just Laetrile but an individual dietary regimen for each patient...
During the months and even years when the disease is in a mild stage, the patient may need only aspirin-or no treatment at all. But when lupus flares up, doctors resort to more powerful weapons. Corticosteroids are commonly used to control inflammations. Skin rashes can be reduced by antimalarial drugs, and even the immune system's rampaging white cells can be brought under control by some of the same potent drugs used against cancer cells...
Because effects of these medicines are sometimes severe, doctors must use them judiciously. Patients too must help; stress, overexertion and strong sunlight all can cause a sharp relapse. As Dr. Sheldon Blau and Dodi Schultz explain in their new book Lupus (Doubleday; $5.95): "The patient and doctor must function as a partnership-analogous, perhaps, to a police team on foot patrol, never knowing from what source trouble may appear, but constantly prepared to cope with any eventuality...
...Allow people to see and copy the records, to correct misinformation or at least get in their side of the story. One exception would be medical records, if a physician decides that disclosure would harm the patient...
...this same Fowler was also a devoted family man who remained married to the same patient and adoring woman all his life and who raised a family that cherished him. When a friend judged his biography of a notorious Denver madam too indelicate, Fowler retrieved the manuscript from an astonished publisher and burned it. When he died in 1960, a convert to Roman Catholicism, Fowler was the friend of countless priests and prelates...