Word: patiently
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Eight rooms on the fifth floor of Stillman, the UHS in-patient facility, have been "temporaraily" converted to office and consulting room space, reducing the number of beds from 46 to 33, Kathryn A. Angell '74, assistant director for ambulatory care at UHS, said yesterday...
Western medicine bases diagnoses on specific symptoms, but traditional acupuncture determines treatment by reading your qi, or energy flow. To test a patient's qi, an acupuncturist examines a patient's skin color (coffee drinkers are distinguishable from non-coffee drinkers), listens to his voice, samples his odor (diabetics smell sweeter than non-diabetics), and most important, the patient's pulse...
Pulse determines therapy. Western diagnoses such as stomach ulcers or colds have no translation into acupuncture treatment. A patient does not have a histological problem, but a problem in an imbalance meridien...
Acupuncturists regulate the meridiens and thus the qi in two broad ways. Both too little or too much qi can cause problems. If the patient has too much qi in one meridien, the acupuncturist disperses it by pricking quickly and then putting pressure on the aperture. Too little qi is "tonified" by allowing a needle to sit longer...
...Whitney Museum of American Art may well be the only incontestably great museum exhibition of work by an American artist in the past decade. The word great is crippled by hype these days, and perhaps it merely clouds what it seeks to praise; yet the qualities it suggests-patient, lucid development; the transcendence of mere talent; richness and density of meaning; and a deep sense of moral dignity in the artist's refraction of his own culture-are so evident in Hopper that no other word will really do. The show consists of nearly 400 paintings and drawings assembled...