Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This will not be easy. The history of our species does not suggest that we have often managed to get on so very swimmingly together, in the same little pond, over the centuries. When he was president of France, de Gaulle--not always impeccably patient in the face of contrary views--once asked in exasperation: 'How can you [possibly] govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?' Well, our little planet is now much further along the path toward an infinite number of anthropoid specimens, and we need to learn how to cope with all that...
...government keeps a keen eye on nursing homes. A decade ago, Congress passed a major nursing-home reform bill, which did help to cut down on the use of physical restraints and tranquilizers. But in 1995 a quarter of the nation's nursing homes failed even to assess each patient's needs or develop individual care plans, federal records show. Even more failed to ensure sanitary food, and about 1 in 5 didn't provide proper treatment for bedsores...
...Menick's a very good back, he reads his blocks very well. He's a very patient runner and picks his holes well...
...reflect increasingly focused arguments concerning the validity of the placebo effect and its growing popularity in the realm of modern medicine. Among the topics pinpointed are the clinical bases of the placebo effect and the "nocebo phenomenon," in which the mere expectation of sickness may cause the angst-ridden patient to hurtle towards death. Even though the articles start to resemble entries in a medical journal, compelling statistics--such as the 12 percent increase in "normal" U.S. suicide patterns following Marilyn Monroe's suicide in 1962--snatch the reader's attention whenever the discussion of endogenous opioids approaches the threshold...
...independence as an artist, citing how many maverick filmmakers "make one interesting movie, and then the next thing they do is some thriller made for profit." Holland did not, however, buy into the notion of a "revived" independent cinema that dovetailed with the success of The English Patient, Secrets & Lies and other non-Hollywood pictures late last year. Again, her multicultural background clearly affords her a unique perspective...