Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sickness benefits, to be paid for an unlimited period, would cover not only the patient's individual needs but also those of his dependents...
...Deal's political woes (TIME, Nov. 30), Jim Farley's sudden preoccupation with railroad timetables added a ton of new weight. No other Democrat understood so well the hard, patient job of building political fences, brick by brick, name by name, promise by promise. In 1932 and again in 1936, Franklin Roosevelt had learned what it meant to have a faithful Big Jim as advance agent. Now a determined Big Jim was advance agent for the other side...
...Patient, Old Style. Dr. Erdmann merrily recalled the trials of the oldtime patient. When asepsis finally came into fashion washing began in good earnest...
...Personalities. After psychosurgery a patient requires months, sometimes a year or more, before he is mentally reintegrated and can lead a useful life. His personality is changed: he is neither his psychopathic nor his pre-psychopathic self...
After recovery a patient's emotional responses are vivid but somewhat superficial. He is indifferent to social amenities, may speak his mind and joke so tactlessly that he embarrasses his family and friends. Yet he will apologize for his behavior with real sincerity. His foresight is impaired. Some of these changes would be undesirable if the alternative-an unchanged psychotic personality leading to complete insanity-were not much worse...