Word: patients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found that doctors decided themselves what was proper physician-patient etiquette without consulting patients. Dunn said she decided to get another opinion and asked patients what they thought was appropriate attire and manner for doctors...
However, pleasing the patient may not always be possible, Dunn said. "Skirts aren't always practical. For instance,it's hard to do CPR on a person when you'rewearing a skirt," said Dunn...
...This is a social problem that has been smoldering for years," says Bowen. At present, Medicare pays hospital bills minus deductibles for the first 60 days only; after that the patient has to pay $130 a day for the next month, then $260 a day for another two months, at which point he is on his own. Patients also have to pay at least 20% of their doctor bills, which often run into many thousands of dollars. About 800,000 of the 28 million Medicare patients every year face bills higher than Bowen's proposed cap of $2,000. Some...
...animatronic wonder, all blue gums, naughty tendrils and mighty mouth. Moranis and Greene make for a comely-homely pair of thwarted lovers, and Martin is his hilarious self, libeling all dentists who had just managed to forget Marathon Man. Then Bill Murray shows up as the perfect dental patient, sublime masochist to Martin's cheerful sadist, and strolls away with ; the picture. Little Shop never quite recovers its bearings; the viewer may not either. Death by laughter. -- By Richard Corliss...
...style of such women, a mixture of tough talk and flighty vulnerability, down pat. The stranger who tries to help her is an ex-cop with a blue-collar manner. Underneath, however, he glows with the middle-class spirit of the New Man: he is wise, patient, a good lover and a better cook. As played by Jeff Bridges, he is also a total bore...