Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the case was complex and included conflicting testimony, the final arguments underscored the key points in dispute. The patient jurors had to face up to major questions about each defendant...
Freud soon realized to his chagrin that Erlenmeyer was correct. Freud's friend and patient, Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, became the first morphine addict in Europe to be cured by using cocaine; he was also one of the first to become dependent on the new drug. This unhappy development dampened Freud's interest in cocaine and helped turn his attention to the psychological theories that eventually won him fame...
...Calif., nursing home as a result of a series of improper medical procedures that occurred in a U.C.L.A. clinic, have worked out a new inflation-proof twist for damages in a malpractice suit. Faced with charges that ranged from unnecessary surgery, falsification of records and failure to monitor the patient, University of California regents have agreed to pay Mrs. Walker's daily medical expenses-currently about $350 and going up all the time-for as long as she lives. Though Mrs. Walker may never come out of her coma, doctors estimate that she still might live for 23.5 years...
...After patient prodding by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who within the past month seems to have emerged as West Europe's leader, seven of the eight were willing to give Wilson the talisman he needs to wave in front of the voters. France, which had called the summit, was less willing, and for a few hours, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (see page 37) sounded more Gaullist than le grand Charles. "There can be nothing of this kind," Giscard acidly said about Wilson's demands at one heated bargaining session. "Conceding what the British...
Last winter, Dr. Gerald Wohlberg, a psychiatrist at Boston State Hospital, was doing a routine day's work when a patient of his burst in with a handgun and shot him in the head. His wife Janet watched with her children as Wohlberg, in a coma for weeks, died a slow death. "It was such a small wound," she said at a press conference announcing the formation of People vs. Handguns, which she helped found. "But it blinded and deafened, then paralyzed him, and finally it stopped his respiration and suffocated...