Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instrument, developed in West Germany and Austria, is now making this surgery obsolete in many cases. The percutaneous nephroscope allows doctors to remove stones through a tiny opening in the patient's back or to shatter them into harmless fragments with bombardments of sound waves. Introduced in the U.S. in the fall of 1981, the technique is being used by more than a dozen major medical centers around the country...
Rice is faced with the dilemma that confronts so many psychiatrists--an uncertainly about his work. He questions whether--with all his own personal problems--he is really qualified to solve those of his patients. Roy Scheider brings a rare credibility to his role, freeing his character from the stereotype of the movie psychiatrist. His Dr. Rice is not the self-assured Freudian father figure who sits comfortably back in his chair, doodling on a pad of paper. Instead, Scheider often seems just as unsure of himself as any patient. In one sequence, Rice steals Brooke's keys and sneaks...
...sound in an adjacent room. The flashback suddenly breaks off and the camera once again focuses on Rice in the present, wondering what the noise was. A moment later, he dismisses the sound and returns to his memory; the flashback continues precisely where it left off, with the patient in mid-sentence...
...injected a few droll jokes: an Iran Air airport bus disgorges three terrorists and some American hostages; a nurse takes her patient's temperature with a long oil dip stick. With its throwaway references to E.T., Ronald Reagan, TV anchormen and movies that have not even been released yet, Airplane II might deserve a place in a time capsule of pop culture circa 1982. Pia Zadora is already in there waiting...
...reason for the uncertainty is that no one knows what causes AIDS, and there is no single laboratory test to certify its presence. AIDS usually begins with swollen glands, fever, loss of appetite and a rundown feeling. As the illness progresses, the immune system grows weaker, leaving the patient vulnerable to viruses, bacteria and other problems. Among the most pernicious of these is Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), which has a 60% fatality rate, and Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare skin cancer that has stricken nearly 40% of AIDS victims, killing at least one-fifth of them...