Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead of meeting in a private office, doctor met patient within a specially designed "clinic" sculpture in the Strauss Gallery of the Fogg Museum. This action, called Medicine as Art/Art as Medicine, is the work of artist and doctor Eric Avery in conjunction with the Multi-Disciplinary AIDS Program at Cambridge City Hospital's Zinberg Clinic...
...chairs are housed between the two walls and a gabled pine-rafter roof. Beach ball-sizes models of the HIV virus hang from the gallery ceiling over the clinic's roof. These black balls, marked by a wood-cut print of the HIV virus's polka-dot structure, envelop patient, doctor, and visitor alike...
...Nobody's tried it in 70- or 80-year-olds yet," says Dr. Richard Paulson, head of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Southern California, where Keh was a patient, "but at present there's no evidence of an upper age limit." Inevitably, the prospect of using their own eggs, frozen years before, rather than a donor's genetically foreign eggs, will only increase the number of older women who want to give birth...
...around me, people murmured that I must be patient, that modern medicine would make it happen in time. But I lacked the fortitude--optimism? attitude of surrender?--required for indefinite treatment. Within months, even the act of entering a pharmacy and purchasing an ovulation-predictor kit had become a painful trial. As the disappointments accrued, each procedure felt less a celebration of potential life than a small death...
...questions. He's too busy. He just turned down an offer to star in the next film by Ang Lee, who directed the Oscar-nominated Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm. That was so he could do the next film from the Oscar-winning director of The English Patient, Anthony Minghella. Damon will play the title role in The Talented Mr. Ripley, Minghella's adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel about a charming con man driven to murder. Until recently, scripts sent to him had multiple sets of fingerprints on them; this one came straight from Tom Cruise...