Word: patients
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...dropped a gun when accosted and cried: "Shoot me-Martin Luther King is dead!" In the Virgin Islands, Contractor Roger D. McKibbin Jr. was knifed to death at a drive-in ice-cream store while his three young children watched. Police arrested Michael Raymond Crowe, 29, a former mental patient from New York who was said to have vowed to kill the first white...
Extreme Dosage. Last week, at a Chicago conference on psychedelic drugs, Dr. Donald R. Jasinski of the National Institute of Mental Health reported that he had produced LSD-like symptoms with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), one of the purified active ingredients in cannabis. The test patient, he said, developed visual hallucinations, distortions of sensory perception, loss of insight, muscle rigidity and muteness. "He later related that he saw himself shrivel down to a doll, and witnessed his own funeral," said Dr. Jasinski. To Dr. Harris Isbell of the Federal Addiction Research Center in Lexington, Ky., Dr. Jasinski's experiments "definitely indicated...
...obsolete equipment, understaffed and overcrowded hospitals, administrative ineptitude, poor judgment, and the nearly nation wide absence of an organized approach to the problem. Each of the 6,000 general hospitals in the U.S. should be at least morally bound to accept and treat any emergency case, regardless of the patient's age, ability to pay or the medical affiliation of his doctor. Hundreds of hospitals, well equipped, properly staffed and organized for the task, fulfill the responsibility. Others fail...
Dumping the Sick. At New Yorks Coney Island Hospital recently, a combination of delayed treatment and the common practice of "dumping" emergency patients on other hospitals contributed to the deaths of two men. The emergency-room diagnosis for one was gastrointestinal hemorrhage and shock. Claiming a lack of beds, the hospital ordered the patient transferred to a larger institution. Still waiting for transfer three hours later, the man died. An other patient died after waiting six hours to be dumped. Subsequently, New York State's Investigation Commission found that on one of the patients' entry cards, the word...
Harriet Baxter, who graduated from Pembroke and holds an M.S.S. from Smith, is a psychiatric social worker at McLean Hospital in Belmont. In 1966, she worked in a British out-patient psychiatric clinic while her husband was a Guggenheim fellow at Cambridge...