Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just how much patient effort even these few projects involve may be seen from the experience of Wycliffian Missionaries Al and Sue Graham. An S.I.L. field team, the Grahams first began following members of the remote Satere tribe around with tape recorders and 3-by-5 cards (for jotting down phonetic notes) in 1959. They are only now on the point of bringing the tribesmen to the joyful final moment of literacy and faith when their new Bibles are delivered...
...give you an example," Rabkin said. "The other day I was walking down one of the halls in the hospital, and I came across a nurse standing outside of a patient's room crying with her fists clenched...
...looked at me and said 'Why can't they just let the poor man die.' He was a terminally ill patient with diffuse cancer. He was writhing in pain and gasping. Now should you do everything possible to resuscitate a patient in that condition...
Rabkin's proposals allow the doctor and the patient--with the consent of an advisory committee--to agree beforehand that, after a certain point of deterioration of the patient's physical condition, the doctors will not make resuscitation attempts...
Spiegel developed his curious theory in the early '60s, after noting that a woman filmed during a trancelike seizure showed an unusual ability to roll her eyes up and down, while an unhypnotizable male patient showed no eye roll at all. Since then, in his clinical work, he has tested the theory on some 5,000 adults. His finding: the eye-roll scale accurately predicts hypnotizability 75% of the time...