Word: patients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BEAZLE: Very well, remember never to let the patient be fully aware of what is wrong. Even tonsillitis can be described as a malign hypertrophied condition that affects nares and pharynx and may result in paraphonia clausa. It was I, you know, who wrote the sign seen in hospitals: "Illumination is required to be extinguished on these premises on the termination of daily activities...
BEAZLE: It was nothing, really. We medical men have been confounding patients for years. As far back as 1699, the physician and poet Samuel Garth wrote: "The patient's ears remorseless he assails/Murders with jargon where his medicine fails." Still, physical medicine is nothing compared with psychiatry. There's where we Jargonists truly have our day. Suppose a man loses his wife and is unable to love anyone because he is sad. What do I tell...
...young girl last week emerged from Tokyo's Jujin Hospital of Cosmetic Surgery. She had given her name as Miss Dang Tuyet Mai of South Viet Nam. But from the moment she arrived, she had got special attention-as befits the First Lady of any nation. For the patient was, in fact, Madame Nguyen Cao Ky, 24-year-old wife of the Premier of South Viet...
...only in bone, Dr. Salman suggests, they can be left in place, provided X rays are taken twice a year to check on their behavior. One reason for Dr. Salman's conservatism regarding bony impactions is that removal of deeply embedded teeth sometimes has a distressing sequel: the patient's jaw feels numb for days, weeks or months...
...play of this sort is that it lacks any dramatic excuse for existence as soon as one imagines it being played by two white or two Negro partners. It has no bloodstream of its own but siphons its vitality from the headlines of the hour, just as an inert patient is intravenously fed plasma. Furthermore, the fact that two very special kinds of outcasts discover a common bond of humanity is not particularly convincing proof that the bridge of universal brotherhood is easy to build...