Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patient at Lutheran General is treated for withdrawal symptoms -which can range from the shakes and hallucinations to convulsions and fullblown DTs-and given a medical assessment during his first five days. On the sixth day he is assigned to one of three 25-patient teams. They meet three times a week-in many cases with wives, husbands, children and even employers-in sessions designed to bring the alcoholic back into society through lectures, educational films and discussions about drinking problems. Lutheran General follows up its patients for two or three months, some of them with psychotherapy, and it estimates...
...individual face of death," says Dr. Herman Feifel, professor of Psychiatry at the University of Southern California, "forces the seriously ill and dying person to live alone on the brink of an abyss with no one to understand him." It is ironic that the very truths from which the patient is being "protected" by family and doctors are the same truths with which he is being forced to live--alone. Hendin argues that our inability, or unwillingness, to cope with death results, in part, from a lack of close contact with it at an early age. "Current longevity, coupled with...
...have gone forward assuming good faith and cooperation. As regards the President himself, we have been respectfully patient. Yet there comes a time when patience and accommodation can begin to undermine the process in which we are engaged. We shall not be thwarted by inappropriate legalisms or by narrow obstacles to our inquiry...
Fantasy Use. Depending on their problems, clients (the word "patient" is never used) have a full curriculum of programs from which to choose. For "pre-orgasmic" women (those who have never achieved orgasm), there is a ten-session course in which they discuss their problems with female counselors, view movies, and receive homework assignments in such subjects as masturbation technique and use of fantasy in sex. Of the 150 women who have taken this program, 90% were eventually able to achieve orgasm...
...scolding is surely familiar these days, coming not only from economists -Heilbroner is chairman of the department of economics at the New School for Social Research - but from politicians and editorial writers, to say noth ing of gasoline-station attendants. By now the poor patient knows Doc Heilbroner's gloomy figures practically by heart. Every ten years mankind's ener gy demands double. And even if they are met by extractions from granite or sea water or God knows what, thermal pollution will increase by 100% in the next couple of centuries, driving atmo spheric temperatures...