Word: patients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Dr. Farnsworth's books, Dr. Szasz concludes that the relationship between student and school psychiatrist is "a status relationship in which the psychiatrist is the superior and the student the inferior." He accuses Dr. Farnsworth of using "the welfare of others" as an excuse for violating the doctor-patient confidence. He claims that Dr. Farnsworth never defines his term "welfare...
...Yastrzemski. What does one say? He is apart. He came to bat after Adair, and one took pleasure, even in his patient preparation. In the on-deck circle, two bats swirling around the shoulders, above the head in an ashwood ceremony of prayer and promise. Meticulous attention to every detail...
Many doctors tended to give as little treatment as possible to avoid prolonging the patient's suffering. But Dr. Sidney Farber of the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston was just then beginning the first tentative treatment of childhood leukemia with a drug called methotrexate that interferes with the metabolism of cancerous cells, in effect starving them of a vital nutrient. It was to commemorate the 20th anniversary of that occasion that the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute picked Boston as the place to make their reports last week...
...Kill. When it came to pin pointing the causes of leukemia, the researchers were still at a loss. But there was no doubt about effects. The National Cancer Institute's Dr. C. Gordon Zubrod reported that by the time a leukemia patient is ill enough for his disease to be diagnosed, he usually has 1012 (or 1 trillion) leukemic cells in his blood. His physician must try to kill all these abnormal cells without killing or damaging too many of the normal cells. In the trade, said Dr. Zu brod, each factor of ten in that trillion cells...
...city's racial problems grow more heated, as the power of the Central Business District bankers and businessmen grows greater, and as the city's people grow more confused by the demands placed on them by society and the Commonwealth, the need for a sensitive, knowledgeable, patient Mayor increases. Only one candidate has these qualities and the confidence of the city's district leaders--Kevin H. White. turning film, but there has not been the kind of reaction that Watkins hoped for. Nor will there be. And this, as much as the torn limbs of the dead and the dead...