Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanks for your reviews of The Snake Pit and Albert Deutsch's The Shame of the States [TIME, Dec. 20]. They both show our need for better facilities and staffing for our mental institutions. Twice I have been resident in Elgin State Hospital (Ill.) as a patient ... It is my belief that mental illness is no more serious than many other of the serious illnesses such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, and heart trouble...
...first time in years, Swedish homes for alcoholics this year granted a week-long Christmas furlough for some inmates. They were packed off with Abstinyl tablets in their pockets for self-treatment. Dosage must be carefully regulated by a doctor; the amount needed varies with the patient. Sweden's Temperance Control Department reports best results from doses averaging four half-gram tablets the first day, two the next two days, one tablet a day until all desire for alcohol is lost...
...Brailsford in sharp tones. His statements, snorted Dr. Russell Morgan, director of Johns Hopkins' department of radiology, were "totally contrary to the best medical thinking in this country at the present time." In the past six months, he said, X rays of the stomachs of 3,000 patients in Johns Hopkins' dispensary clinic turned up cancers in four people who had no symptoms whatever. Said Dr. Charles S. Cameron, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society: if a patient waits for symptoms of cancer, "all too often" it is too late for an operation. Dr. Cameron...
...Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent) keeps his camera on the move through the rooms of Cobb's cottage, and occasionally overcomes the static effect. But the picture loses sight of the fact that all the intimate details of a psychoanalysis are apt to be more interesting to the patient and the doctor than to a kibitzer...
...stark horrors of the public asylum are realistically presented to show the terrifying fate of the mentally sick. An ignorant doctor and a power-loving nurse each causes relapses when the patient is almost recovered. Her cure is the work of one doctor who takes special interest in the case. Without this doctor, she would be one more at the bottom...