Word: patients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make some house calls, the number ranges from as few as one a week to as many as 77 (racked up by a 70-year-old Pennsylvanian); the median is twelve (ten daytime, two at night). A majority of the polled physicians reported that they try to talk their patients into visiting the office because facilities for examination are better there, and the patient can usually be seen sooner...
...many doctors held out for the advantages of the old-fashioned home visit, pointing out that the family setting tells a great deal about the patient. Nearly all physicians try to avoid calling on obvious cranks, drunks who become remorseful in the middle of the night, and narcotics addicts; nearly all eventually make the call if there is any doubt in their minds as to the urgency of the case...
...brain at the time of the original experiences, and that the actual storehouse of the impressions is in a deeper part of the brain. His electric needling sends an impulse to this storehouse that revives the experience. But it does something more: he finds that often, when his patients are stimulated, they have a "feeling about the present situation-an interpretation of the present, but not one that the patient thinks out deliberately...
...teeth. At 26,000 vibrations per second, a blunt, smooth tip on the instrument dislodges accumulations of calculus (tartar), including those below the gumline, where they do the most harm, while a continuous fine jet of lukewarm water washes the debris away. Advantages: to the dentist, speed; to the patient, gentleness, as compared with sharp scrapers, and reduced danger of injury to the teeth...
Last week Edelman put his therapy to the test. He cajoled his patient out to New York's La Guardia Field, picked up a pair of round-trip tickets to Detroit, and led Don onto a plane. By the time they landed in Detroit, both travelers were convinced that Edelman had something on the ball. Don enjoyed the trip so thoroughly that he even entertained the notion of continuing the joy ride all the way to Los Angeles. Hypnotist Edelman took a squint at the future and had no doubts at all about what he saw. Said...