Word: patients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suturing, which is the surgical task of sewing together what has been sliced apart, has long required the patient skill of a seamstress. The North American Indians used bone needles and sutures made of sinews. And even today, when surgery is marked by devices as dramatic as mechanical hearts, sewing and tying sutures by hand take up most of the time that a patient is on the operating table...
Clark describes one patient, a man of 22, who could not control "his incessant and explosive repetition of four well-known monosyllabic obscenities loud enough to disturb others in rooms 30 yards away." Not surprisingly, the patient could not hold a job, appear in public or keep girl friends. Clark cured him by getting him to exaggerate his symptoms: he was made to repeat his favorite obscenities as loud and fast as he could until exhausted. Any alternative words or flagging from a metronome-paced cursing speed of up to 200 cusses a minute was discouraged by mild electric shocks...
...purpose of Clark's punishing therapy was to build up his patient's inhibition about his own symptoms; indeed the man has since passed a driving test without swearing at the woman examiner. Two of Clark's patients have not relapsed during four years since therapy, although neither had found relief during many previous years of psychotherapy. Clark's treatment only partly helped a third patient, a 47-year-old housewife, because she was unwilling to swear on demand. Of course, restraining the symptoms may not be curing the disease; suppressed neuroses have...
...four hours Neurosurgeon Paul Pitlyk and Orthopedist Kenneth Spence worked on the prone patient's cervical spine. They cut under the spinal cord, removed the tooth-shaped projection that hooks the second vertebra into the first just below the skull, and then deliberately fractured the two vertebrae...
...four years, New Jersey's Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. has provided free drugs for any private patient whose doctor certifies that he cannot afford them. Last week Roche announced an other generous move that may put a welcome dent in the huge drug bill that the Federal Government expects to pay for Medicare patients. Heeding President Johnson's "plea to prevent spiraling costs," Roche slashed by 25% the price of all drugs that it sells to hospitals for treating Medicare patients...