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Although several stories in the current issue almost are good, none quite ring the bell. With amateur authors, this sort of just-miss effect is bound to be prevalent, and unless a skillful and thorough editorial hand guides the magazine more carefully in the future, "Radditudes" will find itself with...
Rheumatic fever is hard to diagnose. Its symptoms-fever, aching joints ("growing pains"), nosebleeds, loss of appetite and weight, twitching resembling St. Vitus' dance-are easily confused with the symptoms of grippe and other ailments. Patients may recover from an attack without permanent damage, often without knowing they were...
Skillful Neglect. A good family doctor, observes Hyman, possesses two potent assets not to be found in a laboratory: sympathy and reassurance. Large doses of these healing agents, he says, should be carried in every doctor's kit. Other Hyman hints:
¶ "The great majority of human ailments tend towards spontaneous recovery." A doctor must know when to apply "skillful neglect"; i.e., just tell the patient he is going to get well without treatment, or give him a harmless pill.
The Long Wing is a story of the impact of the Maclouds on 18-year-old Nora. Quietly written, with even less "plot" and hardly more fictional fireworks than might be found in an Elizabeth Bowen story, it is perceptive, skillful, and now & then witty. Emerson once shrewdly observed: "Most...