Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henderson said that after radical surgery, there is less chance of cancer reappearing on the patient's chest wall than after simple, less-disfiguring surgery, but radical surgery does not improve the survival rate because cancer has usually spread to other organs before it is detected in the breast...
...John Wayne, 71, the legendary "Duke" of Hollywood filmdom; with cancer; in Los Angeles. In a 9½-hour operation, Wayne's stomach was removed, but laboratory tests showed that the malignancy had spread to his gastric lymph nodes. The patient, whose cancerous left lung was removed in 1964, accepted the news with true grit. "I've licked the Big ¶before," he said. "And I'll lick it again...
...study, Estroff joined 43 deinstitutionalized patients under a Madison, Wis., team led by Psychiatrist Leonard "itein and Psychologist Mary Ann Test at he Mendota Mental Health Institute. The ground rules she established put her in what she called a "triangular" position with both sides. But in fact she was closer to the patients, pledging to guard their confidences while sitting in on staff sessions. Almost immediately, even trivial questions became moral quagmires. Should she tell patients that she had gone to a staff party? (She didn't.) Should she let the doctors know when she had information they...
...legislation sets strict safeguards about the distribution of the marijuana. "It's much easier for a patient to get grass on the street" than under the program, Goldstein said...
...shortly after V-J day and at a military hospital in Kentucky a damaged veteran sits in a padded cell. Or rather he squats and occasionally hops, knees together, fingers laced behind his back, arms flapping. Understandably puzzled, the Army psychiatrist in charge summons the patient's boyhood friend from the Philadelphia suburbs and asks him to try to break through this strange behavior. Al Columbato brings his own problems with him. He is recovering from plastic surgery on his jaw, smashed in Germany, and from the knowledge of his own profound cowardice under fire. He is not sure...