Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prosecution had produced eyewitness testimony that during that operation. Edelin stood looking at a clock on the wall for a period of at least three minutes, while he kept his hand motionless within the uterus of the patient...
Earlier in the day Edelin described in detail the "abortion by hysterotomy," in which he performed an abdomenal in- cision on the 17-year-old patient to expose the uterus and remove the fetus
Even more alarming to many professionals is the fear that the ruling will keep violence-prone people away from the therapy they need. "The minute you report them, patients drop out of therapy and become more of a threat to the community," said Dr. Maurice Grossman of Stanford University, an authority on doctor-patient confidentiality. Grossman also worries that a potential victim, warned about a threat, may sometimes assume the right to kill the patient on the grounds that a psychiatrist's warning justifies the action as self-defense...
...whom must come from outside the institution prescribing the therapy. But on Dec. 30, two days before the law was to go into effect, a superior court judge in San Diego issued a restraining order against enactment of the law on the grounds that it interferes with a patient's right to medical treatment of his choice. It is also, in the eyes of doctors, a dangerous and undesirable precedent, another instance of outside interference with professional treatment of mental patients...
...could have imagined that rage would be peddled as theatrical entertainment. In its osmotic effect, this viciousness of attitude poisons whatever theme the playwright may have thought he had. The playgoer leaves the theater in a state of psychological dishevelment as he might a hospital room after visiting a patient who is running a dangerous fever...