Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Veterans Administration hospital in Miami, a patient in a wheelchair watches Pepper greeting the bedridden and says: "I'm a Republican. But I always vote for Senator Pepper. He doesn't care if you're an old Republican or an old Democrat. Just...
...Lemann recalled, "someone broke the window Miss Fickett just walked into the office and called to get it fixed She was very patient...
...those of backwardness, but of modernization. Bureaucracy runs rampant, to the point where getting a small corridor painted requires hours of cajoling the bumbling and infantile painters, and assuring them that their fine workmanship is not going unappreciated. Actually saving a life proves all but impossible. One elderly patient undergoes an enthusiastic bout of fits and seizures while the hospital orderlies argue with a nurse over the incentives necessary to convince them to wheel away this ailing charge, who has had the audacity to collapse at the end of a shift. Anderson has a gift for such comically macabre scenes...
Faced with somatizing patients, says Ford, physicians are uncomfortably reminded, often unconsciously, of their own inadequacies. As a result, a doctor may reject a patient outright. For example, a physician who is depressed and abusing liquor will tend to shy away from a patient who is an alcoholic. Conversely, the doctor may become overly solicitous, a tactic that backfires. Ford believes the words "You're fine; come back and see me if something develops" are a virtual invitation to create new symptoms...
Patricia Bloom, an internist at New York City's Montefiore Hospital, thinks Ford's position on the similarities between somatizers and doctors may have some validity but is "skeptical that the doctor is fearful for the same reason that the patient is." Arthur Barsky, a psychiatrist at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, believes Ford's views are difficult to substantiate. Says he: "The way you treat somebody has a lot to do with the way you think about yourself. That phenomenon is there. Beyond that, it's inference...