Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hopeful. Arakelian took Avak to his Palm Springs mansion, "Dream of the Desert," once owned by Barbara Hutton. Avak paid a brief visit to his new patient, placed his hands on Vaughn Arakelian's shoulders and told him: "You are going to get well in a very short time." Then the young faith healer retired to the more modest home of one of Arakelian's neighbors. He walked in the yard, went for an auto ride through town, ate cheese, vegetables and bread. He could read no English, but he ruffled interestedly through stacks of mail and telegrams...
...follows a six-point rule of his own: 1) donor and recipient must remain absolutely unknown to each other; 2) both patient and husband must approve, and need no urging from either the physician or from each other; 3) the practice must not become available to all who ask for it-the doctor must know donor and recipient well; 4) fees must be kept low, to eliminate mercenary motives; 5) the legal father, not the biological father, must be listed on the birth certificate; 6) signed papers must be kept to a minimum-or, better still, eliminated...
...Walter Freeman and James Watts of George Washington University, pioneers in psychosurgery, told of having performed prefrontal lobotomy - a brain operation which frees the patient from feelings of anxiety and fear - on patients who were suffering unbearable pain from chronic disease (TIME, Dec. 23). The operation had no effect on the disease, and did nothing to lessen the pain; but the patients, freed of anxiety, now found their suffering bearable, and some even laughed at it. The doctors' conclusion: "When pain no longer raises a mental picture of future disability, it can be borne with equanimity...
...Service to give it a thorough going-over. For a year, a group of Government experts tested the city's blood, held a stethoscope to its heart, squinted appraisingly at its South Side. Last week, having finished the examination, the doctors were gravely writing it up for the patient in a 2,000-page report. Chicago, they had found, is a none too healthy city...
...Marshall warned: "We must not compromise on great principles in order to achieve agreement for agreement's sake." He reminded the world that misery could not wait: "We cannot ignore the factor of time involved here. . . . The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate. . . . So I believe that action cannot await compromise through exhaustion...