Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...road to racial healing. Anyone who has actually done real psychotherapy, in which people really pour out their souls (in my 20s, I practiced psychiatry), knows how dangerous, delicate and often destructive such an exercise can be--even in the privacy, confidentiality and highly ritualized setting of the doctor-patient relationship. But large groups? Of strangers? On live national TV? Led by a well-meaning but astute and cunning...
...infertility patient, I was glad to see your very informative report. Many of the couples seeking fertility treatment, however, are doing so not because they delayed childbearing to pursue careers or just decided to wait before having a family. Most of them have been trying for years but have been unable to have a baby because their bodies are not functioning properly. Often the couples seek these treatments after many failures and after years of saving up to pay the medical costs. Yes, there is always the option of choosing to adopt, but have you tried to do it? Those...
...HEARTBURN A new blood test--coupled with an electrocardiogram--helps doctors quickly assess whether a patient with chest pains is really having a heart attack. The test measures troponin, a protein released by damaged heart muscle...
...When you play these guys they are big and strong and they play that grinding style so you have to be patient," said Harvard Coach Ronn Tomassoni. "We've got to be able to grind with them and I thought for the most part...
...keeping the free market from changing it too quickly. And it's being waged on behalf not of the 41 million without insurance but of the 70 million who have enrolled in health-maintenance organizations. Which is why the President has a better chance of winning this time. The patient "bill of rights" Clinton announced two weeks ago is supported by the American Medical Association, which opposed him last time; 91 Republicans back a bill that resembles Clinton's. What hasn't changed is that hard-liners in both parties think the issue can carry them to success...