Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's upper left leg. In an interview to be published next week in Medical World News, Tkach recalls that Nixon had had thrombophlebitis "at least once before, in the same place, in the same leg." Tkach says that he had feared a recurrence, especially because his stubborn patient refused to wear the elastic bandage he prescribed. Tkach also complained that "I can't get this man near a hospital," and he had no success on that score last week...
...London suburbs, Novelist Iris Murdoch introduces Blaise Gavender, a successful psychotherapist whose practice is among the well-to-do. Murdoch's tone is aldous, which is to say it seems to promise an ever-so-dry, Huxleian sort of farce: "He received an early lesson from a patient who always wore gloves because she said she had the stigmata. It was a little while before it occurred to Blaise to ask her to remove the gloves. She had the stigmata, and was later successfully treated for hysteria...
...Harriet, by whom he has a teen-age son, at first knows nothing of foul-tempered Emily, his mistress of nine years, nor of Luca, Emily's eight-year-old son by Blaise. He swindles time to visit Emily by saying that he is visiting a difficult nocturnal patient named Magnus Bowles...
...patient was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the date was March 27, 1944-four months before the President was to be nominated for his fourth term, eleven months before he was to attend the crucial Big Three conference at Yalta, 13 months before he was to die in Warm Springs, Ga., of the massive stroke that, based on the medical evidence, seemed all too likely...
...defense lawyers also contend that the indictments invade the right to privacy between a physician and patient. All motions will be debated in preliminary hearings before a judge not yet named and at a time not yet decided. "These constitutional questions are our strongest hope prior to trial," Neil L. Chayet, Charles's attorney, said last week...