Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study, funded by a grant from the Upjohn Company, began by extracting a portion of live tumor in a patient suffering from adenocarcinoma, a type of lung cancer common to emphysema patients. The doctors mixed the removed tumor with a protein called Interleukin 2, which stimulates the growth of the lymphocytes normally present in the extracted tumor...
...million alcoholics ranges from spending a night in a sobering-up center or a factory clinic to a term in a work camp for those who habitually appear drunk at work or in public. Western- style medical detoxification and counseling is still rare: only two hospitals and 23 out-patient centers serve Moscow, a city of 8.5 million people. According to widespread rumors, one recent patient was Grigory Romanov, Gorbachev's erstwhile competitor for the party leadership. After resigning from the ruling Politburo last July, Romanov, long thought to be a heavy drinker, is believed to have checked into...
...maturation of a single follicle, which can then be induced by HCG to release its egg into the fallopian tube for fertilization. But the exact amount of Pergonal required to cause just one follicle to mature rather than three or four--or in this case seven--varies from patient to patient. As a result, repeated monitoring of Pergonal's effect is essential. Says Dr. Roger Lobo, chief of the division of infertility at U.S.C.: "We do not give Pergonal unless we are able to monitor." One monitoring procedure consists of measuring levels of the hormone estrogen in a patient...
Such gains, however, are usually short term. They are often based on the patient's feeling of superiority to an unethical therapist or simply a sense of relief that he has been able to avoid confronting his own problems by the therapist's antics. Often, says the author, therapist and patient collude to keep each other's destructive and frightening impulses at bay. Writes Langs: "Patients will often go from one disturbed therapist to another, seeking a form of madness that is more comfortably suited to their own mad needs and defenses." Virtually every patient in Langs' study who left...
...into imposing their own madness on therapy | sessions. Many, he says, "function well in their own lives, then come into the office and express their own mad concerns." Under the heading of mad therapies, Langs, a strict Freudian, includes all the sunny, upbeat treatments that are based on reassuring patients of their wonderful qualities. Some therapists in Langs' study assured their patients that their husbands or wives were the really crazy people. After a terrifying nightmare, one patient was told by his therapist that his dream was creative and rich and that he need not worry much about it. Bucking...