Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Karen Anne Quinlan case [Nov. 24], the next "logical" step would be for the New Jersey prosecutor to bring charges against Christian Scientists and any others who have had a relative die because they did not attempt to use all available mechanical and artificial means to keep the patient alive...
...offered the possibility of monitoring one's own brain waves, heartbeat, blood pressure, body temperature and other involuntary body functions. The theory: the buzzes, lights or other indicators of biofeedback machines instantly report the body's reaction to thoughts or feelings. Once a patient discovers, for example, which feelings or tensions are associated with a warning buzz or light in the machine, he can learn by trial and error to shift his thoughts or relax his tensions and thereby avoid the warning...
...human blood pressure have generally not been significant or lasting outside the laboratory. Despite claims of 80% success, migraine research has been a headache for some biofeedback experimenters because of the placebo effect - a certain number of ailments vanish, not as a result of biofeedback but simply because the patient has faith in the method. Says Miller: "Many of these headaches would have disappeared if the patients were treated with extract of watermelon...
...ward doctor in Hurry Tomorrow, a documentary about psychiatric treatment in a state mental hospital, radiates the same uncertain blend of lunacy and expertise. "As soon as a patient stops insisting that he should be released," the doctor explains, "he'll be discharged...
Hurry Tomorrow is less about the social origins or definitions of sanity then how provisionally-crazy people, once they're committed, are driven crazier. A black patient, for example, was told when he arrived at the hospital from jail that his charges would be dismissed; later he's led to believe that he had been confused--or crazy. Others are more bluntly lied...