Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concealed Weapon. In Cape Town, South Africa, a patient at the Groote Schuur General Hospital complained of a stomachache, felt better after the removal of a ten-inch knife which he guessed had been there ever since a brawl three years before...
Worth Two Cents. Credit for improving revision methods goes to Ohio-born, frog-voiced Elkin Harrison Powell, 54, president of Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. since 1934, and Editor Yust, a patient, diligent stringbean of a Pennsylvanian who joined the staff in 1930. In 1939, Yust started a revision schedule under which every article would be scrutinized at least twice a decade. As helpers in this job he has University of Chicago graduate students, paid in the form of $1,000 scholarships...
...made a fine record in treating 150 North Atlantic survivors exposed from 30 hours to 22 days: there were only seven amputations. In England, doctors keep the affected parts in cold water. The Canadians have evolved a refrigerating unit with leg openings like prisoners' stocks, so that a patient's body can be kept warm while cold air blows over his feet. Once when a unit broke down and the patient's feet got warm and painful, doctors found him dangling his feet out the window in the Canadian winter...
...many healthy people and on mental cases diagnosed by experienced psychiatrists, the inventors of the game have learned the answers that are usual in different situations. A series of simple clerical manipulations (which his untrained receptionist can work out for him) gives a doctor a graphic picture of his patient's personality as the cards see it. The doctor need not even know what answers were given to individual questions...
...Hathaway and McKinley first announced their "Multiphasic Personality Inventory" in 1940. Similar tests were already in existence, but none were as comprehensive as the 550-card set. Advantages of the cards: a patient's whole attention is more easily focused on one question at a time; filing cards is "less like signing your name to something you haven't read" than the ordinary truth & false tests...