Word: patients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colonels will step aside in favor of a representative government-though they may form their own party and permit elections if they think they are fairly certain of winning. Right now, talk of elections is extremely vague. Says Premier Papadopoulos: "You are asking the surgeon to plan out the patient's summer vacation two years-hence, while he is still strapped to the surgical table...
...first few hours and days after a heart attack are the hardest. Even among patients admitted promptly to some of the world's best hospitals, the first-week death rate runs to 20% or 30%. To improve this depressing record, British doctors are testing two innovations in patient care...
...Section 79 paper expires after ten days. The patient's stay may then be extended for further observation on a Section 77 paper if the superintendent of the institution requests more time. This extension is limited to forty days and provides still further check. Finally, if after forty days the patient has not decided to stay voluntarily (and in my experience about nine out of ten patients do) the superintendent of the hospital may request a Section 51 commitment. This is all the doctor may do, as only a judge may commit somebody on a Section 51 paper. Any patient...
Finally, major mental illness is a painful and difficult problem for the patient and for the community. A person in the midst of a psychosis is not really (as the article and Dr. Szaz imply) free to choose whether or not to live or die for he is often impelled by totally unrealistic inner forces which are subject to reversal by both psychotherapy and chemotherapy. I don't feel a man should be permitted to kill himself because a voice which he hears in his head one week tells him this is his duty. I would not want...
...foremost chronicler of this new Wandering Jew-this spiritually displaced person-Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 79, won a Nobel Prize in 1966. An unhurried Jewish anecdotist, a patient sketcher of modest, baffled characters, a leisurely Talmudic dialectician, Agnon is not the sort of writer to have spectacular impact. But he has the cumulative aftereffect and the stubbornly expanding grip on common experience that measure a substantial talent...