Word: patients
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...dozen American AIDS sufferers, including Hudson, who entered experimental programs in Paris. While it proved ineffective in Hudson's case, HPA-23 has been credited with at least temporarily slowing the replication of the AIDS virus in some others. In no known case, however, has it completely cured a patient or restored his impaired immune system. Initially, American testing of HPA-23 will be restricted to AIDS patients who began the treatment in France and want to continue...
Most had been overtly manipulated or even abused by at least one therapist. One male therapist caustically rebuked a female patient for not trying to seduce him. A respected psychoanalyst had an affair with the lover of one of his patients, then lied about it, announcing that the patient was projecting his unresolved Oedipal fantasies upon an innocent therapist. Two female therapists behaved seductively to female patients, and one of them conducted a session while lying in bed in her nightgown. During a Gestalt group-therapy session, a deeply troubled man was goaded into attempting intercourse with a woman, then...
Many of these patients overlooked or minimized the abuses of therapists and doggedly remained in treatment. The reason, says Langs, is that the evidence of what the therapist is doing is too threatening for the conscious mind to accept. Patients file the information away unconsciously and begin to deal with it in dreams and feedback to their therapists. In a sense, says Langs, the patient and therapist switch roles, with the patient taking on the responsibility of dealing with the therapist's problems. One patient, for example, dreamed that he took his therapist to a restaurant and was not sure...
...intimate non-sexual contact with AIDS victims for many years have yet to produce a single documented case of the disease. No doctor, nurse, dental technician or other "health-care provider," to use the medical jargon, in the U.S. is known to have picked up AIDS from a patient. (A nurse in Britain who contracted the disease was accidentally pricked with a contaminated needle.) In fact, there are only four ways in which the disease is known to be transmitted...
...opener of George Burns Comedy Week also gives cause for optimism, if not wild enthusiasm. Catherine O'Hara, a talented alumna of the SCTV comedy troupe, plays a mental patient who slips instantly into whatever role is suggested to her. Mistaken for a clerk in a stereo store, she becomes an expert on audio equipment; when police confuse her with a member of the bomb squad, she proceeds to defuse an explosive device planted in a store basement. It is the sort of loony conceit that could be sunk by heavy-handed treatment. With the delightful O'Hara and just...