Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public, however, has already been unusually patient with the President on economic matters. When he took office 18 months ago, his own pollsters found that most Americans agreed that he would need roughly 18 months to turn the economy around. What is more surprising, the latest independent polls show that most Americans are willing to give him yet another 18 months to produce results. This tolerance is based on Reagan's winning personality, a widespread belief that past policies have failed, and a valid feeling that no one is strongly pushing alternatives to the President's policies...
That is a useful reminder: herpes is only as devastating as a patient allows it to be. It is not life-threatening. After the first bout, pain is usually less severe. The virus can be subdued without drugs, by applying the oldest of American remedies?positive thinking. Indeed, herpes is so dependent on mood and emotion that once a sufferer regains self-confidence, many outbreaks can be tamed and managed. "I see an enormous number of people who really do cope," says Seattle's Dr. Lawrence Corey. "They have to live with having the disease, but it doesn't consume...
...herpes patient who believes in frankness is Paul Morris, 33, a fan-belt salesman in Houston. He caught herpes in 1976. Dr. A. a general practitioner, said it was syphilis or gonorrhea. Dr. B. a dermatologist, thought it was an unknown skin ailment, and Dr. C. a specialist in infectious diseases, could not identify it but was positive it was not herpes. Only Dr. D. an old friend, had the wit to take a culture that showed the problem was herpes. When Morris informed the woman who gave it to him, she brushed it off with "No big deal." Morris...
...safety is an illusion, and so is paradise. Speaking before another Chautauqua audience this day, Dr. Christiaan Barnard, the surgeon who performed the first heart transplant, says that it is inhuman and arrogant for doctors to prolong life artificially if nothing but pain or coma lies ahead for the patient. His predominantly gray-haired audience cheers. A moment later, one of his listeners falls ill. As he is carried out by ambulance attendants, he gives a V sign to the crowd...
Kurz came up with the notion of using a new bonding technique to attach a brace to the back of the tooth. The braces were tightened by a wire anchored to the patient's molars. After trying a prototype on his receptionist, Kurz filed for a patent in 1976 and sold it two years later to Ormco, a dental-appliance manufacturing company. At present 3,000 of the nation's estimated 7,400 orthodontists have signed up for Ormco-sponsored seminars in Kurz's technique...