Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most people are delighted not only by the low costs and quick exits but by the cheerful, comfortable informality of the small clinics, including friendly follow-up phone calls that nurses make to the patients' homes. If unexpected trouble does occur, the patient can be quickly taken to a nearby hospital. But because patients are carefully screened and examined beforehand by the surgeon, there are rarely any complications, and according to the clinics, there has not been a single fatality in more than 80,000 operations...
...least some of the practitioners are psychiatrists or psychologists in good standing. Netherton works at the conservative end of the past-lives spectrum, often laboring for months to deal with emotions behind a patient's visions. In one-on-one talk sessions, he listens for telling phrases suggesting a problem that can be "worked." Netherton then tells the patient that he is back in the womb and asks him to describe what he sees and hears. Most respond with vivid scenarios...
...patient, a divorced interior decorator named Diane Strom, complained about anxiety from constant financial problems. Netherton saw in her a fear that no one would help her. Sure enough, while reliving her birth, Strom struggled helplessly with the umbilical cord, which was wrapped around her neck. In another situation, living back in 1801 on a farm in the South, she saw her son trampled by a horse, then ran into town looking for aid but could not find any. Past-lives therapists believe that these encounters with old traumas help patients to understand, and thus deal with, their present problems...
...only character worth watching is Renfield, a touched (in the head, if not the neck) patient of Dr. Seward. Richard Kavanaugh in the role compulsively swallows flies, swoops onto sofas reposes upside down and babbles madly about the Master...
...that the shock and threat of quick death from cholera result from the massive loss of body fluid-as much as several gallons a day-through diarrhea. They can prescribe antibiotics, especially tetracycline, which may shorten the duration of the diarrhea. The dehydration can also be reversed, and the patient rehydrated, with a simple solution containing common salt, baking soda, potassium chloride and glucose. If the patient is conscious and not vomiting too severely, he can take the solution orally. Otherwise, fluids must be given intravenously. Either way, if treatment is begun promptly, it can reduce the cholera death rate...