Word: patients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispute centers on Edwards' stubborn fight against Florida's "early-release" policy, which has cut the average TB patient's hospital stay from two years to around nine months by using such drugs as isoniazid and para-amino salicylic acid (bought with money Edwards wrung from the legislature). Edwards contends that the drug-treated patients will suffer relapses. When he heard talk this spring that the new policy might eventually allow the William T. Edwards Tuberculosis Hospital in Tallahassee (400 beds) to be converted into a mental hospital, he argued that if Florida disbands its TB facilities...
Three Weeks of Penance. A typical French spa is Mont-Dore, in central France. There, every morning, patients with respiratory trouble bustle out of 275 summer villas and 80 hotels and pensions to queue up at the doors of the fountain pavilion. Each curist carries his own graduated glass, which attendants fill to the proper mark with tepid, slightly bubbly, radioactive water. After a gargle or a swig, the patient sits in a tub of water for 25 minutes while compressed air is forced up, gets a massage, wades into a thick fog of water particles, finally inhales some vapors...
Writing in the current British Medical Journal, London's Dr. Richard P. Michael gives the case history of a 28-year-old man who was a spectacular example of the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (named for the French doctor who outlined the symptoms in 1885). The patient developed a tic at the age of seven, was an accomplished curser at 13, when even the reading of Tom Sawyer would set him off on a string of oaths. When he entered the British army at 18, he unaccountably stopped swearing, nevertheless managed to make sergeant...
...back home at 22, his tic returned, and he started cursing again-from ten to 40 times an hour. "By this time," notes Psychiatrist Michael, "both his mother and his sister were refusing to accompany him out of the house." When psychotherapy failed, Dr. Michael tried giving his patient inhalations of carbon dioxide four times a week, hoping to slow down the responses of the nervous system. "The frequency of his utterances decreased," reports the doctor, "and he was discharged from the hospital after 30 treatments." Minus his tic and with an innocent tongue, the patient is now a happy...
Without Dreams. While giving credit to Freud as a pioneer, Rogers vigorously resists the tendency of analysts to worship the father-figure of psychoanalysis, and the parallel tendency to put the theory and the method of treatment ahead of all else, so that every patient is fitted to a Procrustean couch. Rogers may have exaggerated the differences between his method and that of other therapists who follow Freud but with modifications. Radical Rogers likes to talk about "treatment with no couches, no dream interpretations...