Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Medicine, thinks Maine, may be on the wrong track in its general approach to alcoholism and insanity. He suggests that doctors might get better results if, instead of allowing a patient to brood about his own madness, they focused his attention on some of the insane behavior of society. In Maine's case, his treatment produced a broad indignation that made him forget his own narrow craving for alcohol...
...caged." At 16, he ran away from home and his harsh stepfather. He became a bum and was first caged in a Hawaiian mental hospital. There he was greeted by a burly attendant who looked him over, observed: "We get it over with," and doubled up the new patient with a hard punch to the stomach...
...Bughousers. In every mental institution where Maine was later caged-private, state and veterans' (before Veterans Administrator Omar Bradley's regime)-he found attendants almost uniformly brutal and degraded. As one patient observed, they were mostly "yeggs, fruits, hopheads, ex-convicts . . . drunks, common thieves." They specialized in beating and choking patients without leaving telltale bruises. One whom Maine met "had a theory that all violent insanity was connected with the lower colon," and treated it with enemas. And attendants (who call themselves "bughousers") are responsible for at least 90% of the "treatment" given to patients in most mental...
Nobody was sure what had really ailed Mr. LeBar until two fellow hospital patients-a Negro baby and a 25-year-old man-came down with smallpox within two weeks after his death (usual incubation period: 14-21 days). Laboratory tests confirmed the suspicion. Soon four other cases developed. One patient died. These were Manhattan's first smallpox deaths in 35 years, the first cases in eight years.* And it was a particularly virulent form of the smallpox virus...
...began when the medicos formed a "Committee of 100" to sponsor a mild bill which would permit a doctor to give birth-control information to a patient whose health or life might be endangered by pregnancy. Roman Catholic spokesmen promptly opposed it. But the doctors had some unprecedented support: the Hartford Courant, first major Connecticut newspaper ever to come out on their side, 500 ministers, an Elmo Roper poll which showed that 85% of the state's citizens (including 75% of its Roman Catholics) favored the bill in principle...