Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world no longer throws its mentally sick into snake pits, on the theory, once widely held, that an experience which might drive a sane person out of his mind might drive an insane one back into it. But snake pits still exist. The Shame of the States, a recently published, chillingly factual report on conditions in state mental hospitals (see MEDICINE), reveals horrors in the midst of the world's wealthiest, healthiest country which many Americans may refuse to believe. The large, hidden population of the mentally ill lives amid squalor, dirt and creeping fear, in the solitary confinement...
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...country doctors work together in a clinic, says Pressly, both doctors and patients are better off. The doctors can take time off for vacations or for refresher courses; the patients get more thorough care. A general practitioner, he thinks, can take care of 85% of the people who are sick; only about 15% need specialists. In his early days, 90% of his practice was home calls, 10% office. Now the percentage is nearly reversed. Says he: "People realize they get more for their money in a clinic or a doctor's office...
Said Economic Czar Miguel Miranda last week: "The future of Argentina, as I see it, is very brilliant, because our products are bound to give us all we need." At such talk many an Argentine businessman winced. All around were signs that the economy of the country was sick and getting sicker week by week...
Having been asked for advice, the ministers spoke frankly. Said Missionary E. Stanley Jones: "A doctor must train . . . spiritually as well as physically . . . Fifty percent of sick persons need prayer more than pills, aspiration more than aspirin, meditation more than medication...