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Perhaps more disturbing are the psychological disturbances associated with hyperthyroidism--emotional imbalance, irritability, impatience, difficulty concentrating and fluctuating depression. In extreme cases, a hyperthyroid patient may appear schizophrenic, losing touch with reality and becoming delirious or hallucinatory. Such symptoms have led some hyperthyroid sufferers to be misdiagnosed, hospitalized for months and treated unsuccessfully for psychosis...
...experiment by young Emily Rosa, testing whether the medical practice of therapeutic touch is effective [SCIENCE, April 13], underscores the fact that the mind and body combine to contribute to healing. TT may be total nonsense except when the patient believes in it. You can get the same effect by letting a patient pet and cuddle a puppy. The healing is real; it is caused not by waving hands or furry friends but by the power of the human spirit. Should puppies get paid $70 an hour for "therapy"? Doctors can't write a prescription for that--yet. STEVE STOVER...
...those skeptical of the possibilities of alternative medicine, consider a well-known and accepted medical reality: the so-called placebo effect, which refers to changes in a patient's health in response to sugar pills. Understood as a psychological response to the expectation that medication will heal, and therefore a consequence of a patient's feelings and expectations, the placebo effect indicates clearly the power of the mind to help cure the body...
...potential improvement there is in America's health care system today. If we are able to integrate effectively all of the successful and most valuable components of conventional and alternative medicine, the new system of health care which results would revolutionize cost, efficacy and most importantly, quality of patient care for all individuals...
...finally started swinging the bats well," Forst said. "Guys are looser at the plate, more patient, and we're swinging at good pitches...