Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hospitals expect neither to profit nor to lose from the increased patient load...
Mary Paul descends the stairs and picks up on Geraldine's last words. "You have to help people be patient with themselves, as well. Rose, whom you met, is living in an imaginary world right now, in which she tells herself that everything is going to be fine for her and the six children. But ask Anita Cleary, Rose's case worker, and you will discover things such as Rose's total inability to handle money; Anita has confronted Rose on that. Those ballet lessons Rose is so delighted with cost $500. Anita is very careful to do two things...
...patient hunters are researchers. Their challenging assignment: to begin capturing the last six California condors in the wild. These and 21 other birds in captivity are the only remnants of the once plentiful species, which has a wingspan of nearly 10 ft. and is North America's largest land bird. Fearing that the free birds may not survive much longer, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week recommended that they all be trapped and transported to California zoos where the others are housed...
...Haley spoke about his "shaggy-dog" technique: get the patient to make an absolute commitment to change, then guarantee a cure but do not tell the patient what it is for several weeks. "Once you postpone, you never lose them as patients," he said. "They have to find out what the cure is." One bulimic who ate in binges and threw up five to 25 times a day was told she would be cured if she gave the therapist a penny the first time she vomited and doubled the sum each time she threw up. Says Haley: "They quickly figure...
Zeig wisely urged the conference speakers to use English instead of professional jargon. Most complied, but there was still much talk of "accessing the self." The closest thing to a central idea was that the patient, or client, already has the answer to the problem deep within, and the therapist simply helps bring...