Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authors' foreword apologizes for ignoring medical ethics in making public the case history of an identified patient-though an involuntary one. The psychiatrists' explanation: "In a world where psychopathic men can so easily become leaders and where today they might by their own personal whims or decisions launch another war on the nations, it is for us a duty to study and comprehend the nature of such men." Anyway, they had the written permission of Hess, who is serving a life term as a war criminal...
John J. Pershing's adjutant, pooh-poohing a radio report that the 87-year-old general was critically ill, described the patient as "chipper and cheerful...
...practitioners serve under a "panel" system started by Lloyd George in 1911. The system covers 19,500,000 low-income workers who pay 40? a week (their employers an equal amount) for medical care, sickness insurance and pension fund. The doctors, who get about $3 a year for each patient on their panel, may also engage in private practice. The doctors get their steady, bread-&-butter incomes (40% on the average) from the panel; the jam comes from private patients...
...gruesome of inventors, Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin) investigated Mesmer and declared that his theories were unscientific. But the experiments went on. A later Viennese physician, Sigmund Freud, experimented for a while with electricity and hypnotism, and then abandoned hypnotism for his own techniques of psychoanalysis. He reasoned that a patient under hypnosis is apt to say what the physician wants him to say instead of revealing his "unconscious" mind. Besides, Freud decided, hypnotism's effects are too ephemeral and not everybody can be hypnotized...
...Ochsner Clinic began with ten beds for diagnostic purposes, now has 220 in three buildings, a medical staff of 62 (mostly from Tulane), helped by some 200 interpreters, nurses, technicians, orderlies. Polite attention to private physicians who send patients to the clinic has warded off gripes that often plague group practice clinics; careful attention to the patient as a person on the diagnostic assembly line has won the clinic the name, "Mayo of the South...