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Fresh from Cornell University Medical College in 1902, Dr. James Sonnett Greene received his first patient: a youth of 20 who stuttered. Between agonizing pauses and machine-gun bursts of repeated consonants, the boy asked what could be done for him. Young Dr. Greene had heard nothing about speech difficulties in medical school. He told the patient to return in a few days; he would try to find out what could be done. But the boy did not come back. He killed himself...
Haunted by his inability to help that first patient, Dr. Greene decided to give up his general practice and do something for stutterers. In 1916, fortified by six years' postgraduate study in Europe, he opened a clinic in Manhattan for speech defects. It has since become the National Hospital for Speech Disorders, treating as many as 4,000 patients a year (and instructing hundreds of patients' parents...
Fear, like pain (see below), has its good points. Fear sends the patient scurrying to the doctor to find out what, if anything, is wrong with him. But fear of cancer, especially among women...
Because the nonmalignant fibroid, or fibromyoma, of the uterus is by far the commonest tumor among women, says Dr. Frank, "the health, happiness and future morale of many a patient will rest on the tact, insight and kindliness with which the attending physician . . . enlightens her about [its] presence ... An incautious 'You have large fibroids . . . which must come out at once' may produce panic and ... in due time she will find an operator willing to mutilate her without valid indications." In the same issue of the Journal...
Harry C. Saltzstein and Robert S. Pollack report on fear of cancer of the breast. 'There are, perhaps, few conditions which cause as much anxiety and worry to the patient as do tumors of the breast. There are deep . . . reasons which make the thought of loss of the breast terrifying to the average woman...