Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They can't afford the time to argue with the Beckwiths of the world," Dr. Gerald says. "It's not whether Beckwith is right or wrong. It's that Beckwith has damaged the prospect of providing advanced patient care through innovation...
CHRIST-MONGERING, however, is not really fair to Hough, whose book is more about a patient guardian than a martyr. Gifford's assumption of responsibility for Kimberly Ann Regan, the victim, seems all too Christian, but it makes sense for a man whose equanimity has depended, since a decision 34 years earlier to limit his scope to a Cape Cod town, on the preservation of a profound order within that community. Gifford's dedication to the community is so abiding that he feels called upon to write its history upon his retirement. The obliteration of Kimberly Ann Regan within...
...patients tested with new drugs," Frei says, "are patients with incurable cancer and have received all known acceptable treatment." Testing new and unknown drugs on these individuals, he says, may be worthwhile if only for the hope it gives the patient. "Hope," he says, "is an extremely important factor." What's more, Frei explains, failure to innovate in the National Cancer Institute hospitals may only lead desperate patients to seek new and glorious treatments from quacks. Laetrile, Frei points out, only becomes more attractive in the absence of innovative drug programs...
...around a table than the FDA has." Frei's image of a self-contained cancer center where researchers determine the limits on experimentation suggests the type of facility where heady and expert investigators can experiment on human beings with impunity, but he emphasizes the ethical obligation to serve the patient first, above any commitment to research. But Frei adds, "For patients with disseminated cancer where there is no cure, therapeutic treatment is treatment.... The important dividend to appreciate is that even if that drug does not work, in a patient, the door of hope has been held open...
...machine, overpowered by the size and power of the machine, yet also enlarged by the sense of the quantum jumps of energy that pulse through the industrial process. The forces are tangible, yet methodical and metrical. A post-industrial world, because it primarily involves services-doctor with patient, teacher with student, Government official with petitioner, research team with experimental designer-is largely a game between persons. In the daily experience of a white-collar world, nature is excluded, things are excluded. The world is entirely a social world-intangible and capricious-in which individuals encounter and have to learn...