Word: patients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report that Sayles, who likes to portray groups under pressure (Return of the Secaucus Seven, Matewan), has solved all these issues, but he has not. Based on Eliot Asinof's definitive book of the same name, Eight Men Out lacks either the spacious simplicity of legend or the patient detailing of realism. And Sayles often seems like a man who, trying to stretch a single, gets caught between bases and is desperately trying to evade the rundown...
...inspired by a gift from a dying patient and armed with an indomitable determination, Dame Cicely opened St. Christopher's, the world's first modern hospice. In doing so, she changed the impersonal, technocratic approach to death that since World War II has become endemic in overwhelmed Western hospitals. No heroic efforts were made to prolong life. There was no operating theater; no temperatures were taken or pulses recorded. Instead of specialists mumbling into charts, there were doctors sitting at bedsides holding patients' trembling hands. When death came, it was not with the accompaniment of IV drips and respirators...
...nurturing begins the moment the ambulance arrives with a new patient. Madeleine Duffield, the matron (nursing director), is at the door with a warm bed covered with a colorful afghan. Questions like "Doctor, am I going to die?" are answered honestly. "Deception is not as creative as truth," says Saunders firmly. "We do best in life if we look at it with clear eyes, and I * think that applies to coming up to death as well...
...hard to find patients at St. Christopher's who will complain about the lack of honesty when they were in the hospital. Or of the suffering because medication was only given when the pain became too enormous to bear. Or of the indignities forced on the dying. "I saw a man die full of wires and plugs and little bleeping things," says Cancer Patient Ted Hughes, 56. "He was treated like an embarrassment and put in a side room with curtains around his bed." By comparison, says Patient Phyllis Sadler, 87, "I am looked after with such love and kindness...
...bulletins from the doctors to State President P.W. Botha. In reply to a worried letter from the Rev. Frank Chikane, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, Botha assured him, "We are even more concerned and do wish Mr. Mandela a speedy recovery." Botha added that the patient had said he was satisfied with the treatment he was receiving and had not asked to be examined by outside doctors, as Chikane and Mandela's wife Winnie had requested...