Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anyone knows who ever sat back waiting for the worst, a dentist's chair is not the place where a patient feels at his most masterful. "Whatever you say, Doc," is a customary attitude. But it also can be an invitation to painful larceny, both petit and grand, or so says a dentist named Melvin Denholtz...
...comparison shopping. According to the American Dental Association's 1975 fee survey, national U.S. averages are $10 for a silver filling on one tooth surface, $13 for a simple extraction, $14 for cleaning, $92 for root-canal therapy and $251 for full upper dentures. For the financially strapped patient, Denholtz recommends Government clinics and dental schools -often inconvenient, sometimes low on quality, but easy on the wallet. At all costs, do not fall prey to what Denholtz calls cut-rate "assembly line" dental sweatshops, where one man said he had all his teeth pulled in 35 seconds while...
...unusual policy of allowing the patient - and not relatives - to decide is feasible in massive burn cases because the victim's nerve endings are anesthetized by the injury, leaving him lucid and free of pain for the first several hours. In fact, says Dr. Bruce Zawacki, 42, head of the burn unit, relatives have been "overwhelmingly relieved" that the burden of decision making is taken off their shoulders. Says Zawacki: "In the long run it is better for our mental health and the patients' mental health to lay the cards on the table." Part of the policy...
...premise that the action is occurring in the old city of Riga in 1968. Somersaults is one of those plays (Our Town is another) for which the audience projects the essential scenery, place and time out of its own bittersweet memory. Rodion, the fuss-budgety doctor, and his patient Lidya, an actress come down to circus cashier, could as well be in Pasadena as Riga. The true location of each is an almost impermeable condition of the solitude to which life has delivered them. The difference is that Rodion defies his loneliness from inside a husk of willful indifference...
...starred both in English films and with Michael York in last year's Hollywood science-fiction fantasy Logan's Run. Now comes Equus, Sidney Lumet's film of the long-running Broadway psychodrama. Jenny, 24, plays a pert stablehand who tries to seduce the troubled young patient of Psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Burton). In the film, as on Broadway, that scene is played au naturel, which doesn't bother Jenny, since she considers it "necessary for the story." Says she: "As soon as you start covering up, as soon as you start avoiding the nakedness...