Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caricatured Psychiatrists. When he discusses Kinsey's attitude toward psychiatrists, Dr. Kubie loses his proper bedside manner entirely. It almost seems, he laments, that the Kinsey Report is trying to caricature the psychiatrist. He cites one statement: "There are some psychoanalysts who contend that they never had a patient who has not had incestuous relations." Snapped Kubie: "There has never been and never will be any psychoanalyst who has made such a statement . . . We expect such distortions from occasional biased and irresponsible ignoramuses, but not from responsible fellow scientists...
...million on imports. Much of the chapada is forested, but the pioneers are hard at work, burning off the underbrush and rooting out stumps. When a flame sears or an ax slips, friends will give the injured what fumbling first aid they can. If that is not enough, the patient is packed into a truck or jeep, jolted and jounced over miles of cattle trails to the Goiaz Evangelical Hospital...
...meanest medic had not been caught in an abortion mill, had not brazenly advocated socialized medicine, or neglected a patient. Nothing of the sort. He had contrived to keep a broken-hipped Illinois Civil War veteran alive (he lived to his 106th birthday) by denying him his chief pleasure in life: attending G.A.R. exercises on Memorial...
...doctor who would thus doom a patient to savorless old age, said the Journal of Medicine, might well be the president of a local geriatric society "shooting for a record . . . What is his conception of his place in society, of his duty to his patients? Who is he to deny the old man the pleasure of passing the reviewing stand . . . saluting the colors, and, if God is good, falling dead at the long anticipated climax of his life? Who is any man to presume to prolong life at the expense of the sacrifice of every bit of its romance, bite...
...Thank You. When Marriner Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, was demoted, the President asked him to become vice chairman (TIME, Feb. 9). In four months the President never got around to making the actual appointment. Last week, considering the delay and "other developments," patient Mr. Eccles asked that the whole matter be dropped. He said he would continue as plain board member...