Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promises, they simply ignored it. The accord Shaath brokered, for example, calls for Israelis to withdraw forces from the West Bank town of Hebron, but that hasn't happened yet. "We normally would have screamed," Shaath says, "but we've generally kept quiet. We've been patient with Peres as he has had to satisfy the Israeli right wing. The question is whether that patience will have been worth...
...very thoughtful, patient teacher," said Baird Professor of Physics Gary J. Feldman, who has known Todd since they served together on Stanford's faculty. "I'm sure he would do a very good...
...strangers by definition don't know enough; but neither do friends, because the outside of an illness is so different from the inside. To the eye of Health, any number of conditions may seem quite hopeless: quadriplegia, blindness--how can anyone live with these? Yet on the inside the patient may be bubbling over with ecstasy or rage or despair over something quite unrelated. Happiness seems to proceed on a quite separate track from health, and anyone who's had a major disease has likely had a sense that his loved ones are suffering either much less or much more...
...with nothing but pain and will continue to be until the inevitable end--at which point, someone throughout history nearly always pulls the trigger, legally or not. And the someone has always been the professionals on the spot, the loved ones if possible and whatever is left of the patient, in a consensus of surrender. It isn't cool or precise, but it's the best...
...hard part [for Millennium researchers] is finding patient populations particularly with complex genomic causes where more than one region is affected," said Tepper, who graduated from Harvard Medical School. "Through mathematic algorithms, clinical phenotyping and associations to the genome, we can dissect complex linkages that have given confusing results in the past...