Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sergeant Jones' arrival on Ward X leads to chaos--the reaction of "abnormals" to the presence of the "normal." Langtry, whom her patients regard as their property, falls in love with Jones. Jones, however, is "normal" and therefore a completely foreign element among the "troppos." Nurse Langtry's obvious attachment to him enrages the other patients, and secret plots and jealous machinations, leading to the murder of a patient, result...
...five-year pilot program. The University of Southern California has trained 29 pharmacist-prescribers who now work in hospitals, nursing homes and mental-health centers. Just last week Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill allowing physician-supervised pharmacists, with training, to adjust and monitor the dosage of a patient's drug therapy in institutional settings...
...voice concern about fragmentation of medical care and potential liability problems. Others see the pharmacist practitioner as simply superfluous. But many doctors who work with pharmacists seem delighted. Says Dr. Alan Steinbach of the Rockridge Clinic in Oakland, Calif.: "They take the pressure off the doctor and make the patient happy...
...part of the cost-cutting package, the hospitals would limit hospital stays and step up the proportion of cases handled on an out-patient basis...
...again the "gang comedy" spirit of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Ed Weinberger and Stan Daniels, producers of Moore's show, Taxi and The Associates, should know by now that the basic format-a bland central character surrounded by screwballs -works only when the star has a patient and loyal following, as Moore did. Even with the best of casting, the TV audience hardly needs another gang comedy, certainly not a spoof western. Satire, like sacrilege, derives its impact from audience belief in the significance of what is being mocked. Most Americans, to judge from box-office results...