Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With patient good humor Harry Truman repeated a familiar little scene over & over again. Seated at his desk in the Oval Room he scrawled a few letters of the presidential signature, picked up another pen, squiggled on, changed pens again. When he finished he handed them to the beaming group clustered around him while cameras recorded the ceremony...
...Kabat clinic a patient is given four doses of the drug daily and an hour of specialized muscular re-education much like that for polio cases. Treatment takes from six months to a year, and costs $200 to $250 a month. Improvement is apparently retained. Possibilities vary with the extent of brain damage, but most of Dr. Kabat's patients have improved-the speechless have begun to talk, the trembling have learned to eat with a steady hand, walk with a sure step...
Should doctors tell patients the truth? Indeed, asks Dr. Charles C. Lund in the current Annals of Internal Medicine, "Is it possible to convey the 'truth' about a serious matter to a patient?" The Boston cancer specialist's own answer: "Blunt 'truth' is not good [but] avoidance of the 'truth...
...doctor abruptly announces, "This is cancer," his patients will react in many ways. Eight out of ten, says Dr. Lund, might consent to surgery but "of these half might never forgive the doctor for his brutality." One patient out of ten might "believe erroneously that cancer is never cured and therefore decide to have no treatment. The other might be so upset mentally that [he] leaves the doctor and goes to a charlatan in whose hands all hope of cure will be lost...
After an operation, Dr. Lund thinks, the patient should gently but firmly be told what has been found and whether he will live. "Dying patients usually have a fairly good insight into their condition and the shock of confirming this belief is not great...