Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will only state that there are many people in the academic community who are concerned that short-term financial considerations are influencing unduly certain deci- sions which can have a long-term negative impact on academic teaching and research to the potential long-term detriment of patient care...
...rising computer whiz with a wife, a son and--somewhat to the shrink's discomfort--a beautiful mistress. After their last session, Neruda notes, "I have to admit a surge of vanity: I was proud of what I had wrought." A bit later he hears from his former patient, "You cured me. I'm not a neurotic anymore. It's just that I can't bear the normal misery of life." The message is read to the doctor over the phone by a detective investigating Gene's murder of his wife and subsequent suicide...
Last December, scientists tried a new treatment for AIDS. They injected immune cells from a baboon into a patient, and then killed the baboon to perform an autopsy. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) went into action...
These discursive interruptions, the sort of droning stuff therapists are paid to listen to, or that a patient friend hears well into the second bottle of white wine, tell nothing of importance about the title figure that couldn't have been handled in half a dozen brisk paragraphs. The flashback chapters turn a tidy, well-told book into a fat, soggy...
Even skeptics such as Jarvis believe meditation and prayer are part of "good patient management." But he worries, as do many doctors, that patients may become "so convinced of the power of mind over body that they may decide to rely on that, instead of doing the hard things, like chemotherapy...