Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explanation is obvious. "Salt is the hydraulic agent of life," he explains. "It is salt that holds the water in humans, causes swelling and a high fluid volume. This means an increased blood pressure." It does indeed. Doctors have known since 1900 that lowering salt intake drops a patient's blood pressure, and most doctors agree that Americans eat too much salt. One of the first things a doctor tells, or should tell, a hypertensive patient is to throw away his salt shaker...
Part of the drama lies in watching Dysart wield his liontamer's chair, part in watching what happens to him as he is forced to compare his own barren life with the daily ecstasies of his patient. But the most powerful part of the drama is Shaffer's use of the psychiatric technique of abreaction--the literal replaying of key events--on stage. This allows him to get anything he wants on stage without any question of its being out of place. The choreographed ritual of the blinding, over in an instant, is much less like melodrama when it comes...
...detective who solves a crime because that's his job but wonders whether he was right to turn the man in; not too unlike the lawyer who gets a client acquitted who might really have committed the crime; not too unlike the doctor who saves the life of a patient who might be better off dead...
Wall found that patients asking for acupuncture anesthesia are admitted to a hospital days or weeks before their scheduled surgery and get test needlings to familiarize them with the sensations and to let the doctors see how they react. The surgical team emphasizes "the spiritual aspects of acupuncture" in between discussions of Marxist-Leninist dialectical materialism. At difficult stages during the operation itself, the surgical team capitalizes on the general effects of distraction: "A great deal of encouraging talk streams on almost continuously." Nevertheless, Wall saw several operations during which the patient showed "varying signs of misery." But the discomfort...
...American as son-of-Godfather: Bill Bonanno's thought processes, writes Sheed, "reminded me of Yogi Berra reading Gospel comics." Or the American as prototypical, George Meany-like labor leader, with "the gravelly voice, abraded in drafty meeting halls, the face of many weathers, and that style-watchful, patient, sufficiently charming for the political side of things. He tends to be built for sitting up all night, like a beer bottle, and his backside is probably as callused by now as his hands...