Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happy talk with unhappy talk, tabloid-style, producing a constant trafficking in emotions, like closeups of people in pain being lifted into ambulances. This nightly distorted accumulation of police-beat misfortunes makes any city look like a disaster area. Items are tailored to the attention threshold of the least patient viewer. That is what happens when entertainment values outweigh news judgment...
Gorski explained that the UHS, for reasons of doctor-patient confidentiality, does not usually report attempted suicides to the police, which tends to make the statistics understate the true number of suicide attempts. At the same time, the figures may be inflated by the Police Department's practise of retaining for statistical purposes even those suicide calls later proved fake...
...approach for most of the issues the movie deals with. Women who object to the assembly-line impersonality of hospital births should know that they can give birth at home, assisted by a trained midwife. They should know that sometimes doctors order hysterectomies for convenience and that if a patient insists on it, sometimes her uterus can be saved. They should think twice before signing a blanket consent form before breast surgery...
...more information and more choice"--the film's motto--is not a real remedy for women who lack the luxury of a one-to-one, doctor-patient relationship. Only one of the film's sections addresses the concerns of black and minority women who are too poor to obtain health care anywhere but at an underequipped understaffed clinic. The black women interviewed complain that many of their friends have had their "tubes tied" without being told that the operation was irreversible, and that when black women appear in hospital clinics, no matter how diverse their medical symptoms, they are usually...
...elegiac note sounds throughout this collection (Hoagland's third) of splendidly diverse essays. Civilization has been bought at the cost of atavism; increasingly, man's only measure of himself is man. Yet Hoagland can examine such melancholy facts without shrillness or sentimentality. Instead, he serves as a patient guide to what remains. He writes movingly about the black bears still extant in Minnesota and the few red wolves at bay in southeast ern Texas. His description of the complexities and nuances of wolf society is enough to make dog owners marvel at the instincts buried in their pets...