Word: patients
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...plot, shallow by itself, is further hampered by poor acting. Frohock is the only actor on the stage who does a creditable job, and all the others are too frequently trapped by memory lapses and forgotten lines. These slips occur far too often for even the most patient viewer to dismiss. The lines seem so unnatural to the actors at times that some actors start saying the lines--stop--then reword what they were saying, presumably to the way they were written. These errors eradicate whatever respect the play may have established with its audience--and that makes Forbidden Fruit...
...CHRISTMAS WISH] Ralph + exotic amour = The English Patient...
...YEAR'S RESOLUTION] Repeat after me: English Patient was a fluke...English Patient was a fluke...
...wonder if some of the incidents of patient awareness during surgery might result from hospitals' attempts to control costs by not overmedicating, Maybe the health-maintenance-organization executive who could feel the surgeon make incisions when she underwent laparoscopic gall-bladder surgery was getting a taste of her own medicine. An HMO executive can really get concerned about the quality of care when it is her own. JOHN A. DILLE Naperville...
...know firsthand about the terrifying experience of "awareness" during surgery, having gone through it during open-heart surgery in 1977. As a psychiatrist, I work with patients with a variety of post-traumatic-stress disorders arising from car accidents, physical abuse and other traumas. The new device that can monitor the patient's brain waves and alert the medical staff if there is a potentially dangerous state of awareness will save the sanity of many surgical patients. But many of those who experienced such a trauma long ago may not even realize that surgery was the cause of present stress...