Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While better equipment and treatments are available for the political elite, they also have problems. Dr. Warren Zapol, an anesthesiologist at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, tells of being asked to tend the daughter of Heart Surgeon Burakovsky. The patient, herself a doctor, had entered a general hospital in Moscow with abdominal pain, but then, as can happen in hospitals anywhere, "she got into trouble," says Zapol. She apparently had an infected fallopian tube and then a "misadventure" with anesthesia, followed by cardiac arrest and blood infection. When Zapol arrived in Moscow, she was having difficulty breathing...
...complex, the team finds a corpulent 55-year-old man, clad in an undershirt and slacks, sitting on a couch. Serov asks: Is there pain or shortness of breath when he walks? No. Is he under medication? Yes, for high blood pressure. Does he have a recent cardiogram? The patient's wife nervously flips through a book until the cardiogram drops out. Serov quickly decides that the man should be hospitalized...
...ambulance pulls up at Hospital No. 51 in the Kievsky district; the patient, clutching a plastic bag filled with personal articles, is escorted inside. While one of the feldshers completes her notes, Serov and the other paramedic take a perekur (smoking break...
...chlorpromazine and haloperidol, are the main form of treatment. Because the Soviet pharmaceutical industry is small and cautious, it is slow to put new drugs into production. Soviet hospitals and dispensaries frequently treat schizophrenia with insulin shock therapy. After an insulin injection cuts blood sugar and induces coma, the patient is revived with glucose-a procedure repeated 20 or 30 times...
...Pavlov's behaviorist ideas, has never taken hold in the Soviet Union, although the Georgian Academy of Sciences recently sponsored a symposium on the concept of the unconscious. In the U.S.S.R., talk therapy or "rational psychotherapy," is mostly a series of admonishing lectures. The doctor listens to the patient, then tells him how he ought to behave. If the complaint is deemed too trivial-anxiety, or mild depression-a patient may be told not to come back at all. Hypnosis is often used by doctors to encourage healthier behavior, like trying to get an alcoholic to stop drinking. Says...