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...play has always needed sprucing up, from the moment Shakespeare used the motley of farce to clothe his meditation on "class"-on the battle in every society between rank and value, between nobility in title and nobility of the soul. Helena (Harriet Walter), a physician's daughter living in the care of the Countess of Rossillion (Margaret Tyzack), is desperately in love with the Countess's son Bertram (Philip Franks); but Bertram, influenced by the pompous Captain Parolles (Stephen Moore), refuses to love a woman of low station, especially when forced into marriage with her. Deception and humiliation...
...introduced into western medicine by a toxicologist and analytic chemist who confirmed that cannabis is non-poisonous, a view shared by the Chinese--who had carved a snake coiled around a rod from hemp stalks since the time of Shen Nung, legendary" father of medicine Queen Victoria's personal physician came to view cannabis as "one of the most valuable medicines that we possess," and brought new understanding to its widespread use in the East as a tonic and relaxant herb by declaring it to be the remedy of choice for a certain class of functional neurological disorders...
David Solomon received one of the biggest hands of the day when he rejected the idea of legislation which would restrict the availability of cannabis to prescription by a physician. "Forget about the M.D.s for a minute. Let's talk about the folk doctors. We're folk. We doctor ourselves. (Legislation should) support the right of any individual citizen to grow--to produce marijuana, without taxation, for personal use and the use of friends and family...(It should be) as free as lettuce...
Faced with somatizing patients, says Ford, physicians are uncomfortably reminded, often unconsciously, of their own inadequacies. As a result, a doctor may reject a patient outright. For example, a physician who is depressed and abusing liquor will tend to shy away from a patient who is an alcoholic. Conversely, the doctor may become overly solicitous, a tactic that backfires. Ford believes the words "You're fine; come back and see me if something develops" are a virtual invitation to create new symptoms...
...order, but the patients themselves are offended by such referrals, believing that the doctors are not taking them seriously. That often leads patients to shop for a doctor. "Clinical experience," Barsky says, "indicates that they do not want to be cured, although a long-term supportive relationship with a physician often stabilizes them...