Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is the first in a two-part series. Today: the explosion coming in American health care; the plan Harvard has devised to head it off. Tomorrow: the Med School's scheme for helping the sick in Roxbury; the public's role in running the health plan; Harvard's role in shaping a national reform...
Faced with the pressing demand of healing its sick people, the Federal government has responded with a standard tactic. The government has unloaded the federal fiscal arsenal--through programs like Medicare and Medicaid--and hoped that the poor would be able to buy their health, much as hungry people could health, much as hungry people could use government money to buy a loaf of bread. The simplistic analysis, however, ignores the root disease of the medical system. The money can't do any good when the care is not available...
...dark room, I'm piecing together a number of photographs--to make a whole. All the pictures are of my little girls. She is more alive for me in photographs. Maybe that is sick, but I feel more free to look closely at her then. I have more time to look. At times I fall through her eyes and out darkness is no longer divided. Then we live in one great fear which is akin to love. The collection of photographs is an attempt not only to record but to incorporate the seven years of her life. I realize...
Honest Reassurance. Siblings suffered too. Some felt guilty and feared that they too might suffer a fatal illness. Several complained of the parents' preoccupation with the sick child and felt rejected. A number developed severe bedwetting, headaches, poor school performance, depression and persistent abdominal pains. Nor were grandparents immune. Grief reactions and ignorance made some of them incapable of helping the sick child's parents. No fewer than ten families declared that one or both sets of grandparents had been more hindrance than help...
...inhabitants are mental patients - and that most of them are not confined to an asylum but cared for by normal families in the town. While this kind of outpatient care is still relatively new to psychiatry, the good people of Geel have been shel tering the sick in their homes for more than 500 years...