Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This last weekend must have been an invigorating one for that patient group of diplomats which meets at Lake Success. At last they have seen two nations come before the United Nations with a seemingly insoluble problem, with diametrically opposed viewpoints, and consent to arbitrate their differences. A speech by the Indian delegate charging Moslem aggression, a five and a half hour talkathen by the Pakistan Foreign Minister Mohammaz Zafrullah Khan indicting India for "genocide," a quick vote and the discussion moved into the offices of M. van Langenhowe, Chairman of the Security Council...
...integrity and dignity of the big soldier-diplomat dominated the marble caucus room. George Marshall was, as always, firm but courteous, patient and persuasive. His flat monotone carried a note of determination...
...hour Dr. Leake listened to evidence presented by the bureau's Robert Bauer. Bauer showed him laboratory records with the names of physicians, explained some of the tricks of the trade. Firms, sometimes appointed by doctors as "agents," had charged the patient double and remitted the 100% overcharge to the patient's physician. Doctors had joined "cooperative" laboratories and received dividends based on the amount of business they sent...
...Marrakech, Morocco, Winston Churchill, 73, was out & around after 1) a tussle with a bad cold, 2) a spell of bronchitis, 3) a plague of morbid rumors that had far-off London wringing its hands. Wife Clementine flew down with her husband's private physician. Next day the patient went motoring, dealt the rumors a crushing blow by dining in public on soup, fish with mayonnaise, veal soufflé, cake with whipped cream, tangerines and coffee...
When the alcoholic quits trying to "run his own life," his tension, his feeling of hostility toward his fellow men and his sense of isolation disappear; he feels a vast relief and "release of power." Said a Tiebout patient after joining A.A.: "Now I am not unhappy about being unhappy. Before, I used to plan; now I can think without planning...