Word: patients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just as matter-of-factly the patient imagines that his blood or urine sample will go to a laboratory filled with shiny, sterile stainless steel and glassware, to be worked over by skilled technicians in white coats. He has no doubt about the accuracy of the results, because his doctor shows none. That blind faith is unjustified, a succession of medical experts told the Senate antitrust subcommittee last week. In fact, Dr. David...
...gossips were insisting that soon there would be a Velasco on either side of the camera. Not so, said Charlie's daughter. "I have no intention of marrying until I'm 30 at least." That does seem a bit of a wait, but Manuel looked reasonably patient when the two got together at a party in Madrid, where Geraldine has bought an apartment and set to work in a new Spanish film...
After Dr. Laing and his colleagues had studied scores of patients in painstaking detail, they concluded: "The experience and behavior that are labeled schizophrenic are a special sort of strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable position. He cannot make a move, or make no move, without being beset by contradictory pressures both internally, from himself, and externally, from those around him. He is in a position of checkmate." Before schizophrenia can be better understood and its treatment improved, psychiatry itself must undergo a deep change, Dr. Laing believes. He insists that a mental hospital...
Skin Valve. Most patients who lose the larynx are cancer victims. These number about 6,000 a year in the U.S., and more than half of them learn to speak again by swallowing huge gulps of air. When they bring it up, it makes the throat muscles vibrate at a fixed, almost toneless pitch, in what Dr. William W. Montgomery of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary calls "an educated burp." Every time Surgeon Montgomery has done a laryngectomy, he has longed for a way to give the patient something better than this burping speech. He saw the results...
...Montgomery thought he had figured out a way to get around this, and the young Marine for whom he was called into consultation at Chelsea Naval Hospital was an ideal patient for the first operation. Lopata, 25, was essentially healthy, with no cancerous tissues to hamper healing, and a leg wound that would keep him in the hospital for weeks...