Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dolls & Baby-Sitters. Trying to keep a child happy nn bed is a big order. An occupational therapist calls around to give lessons in making leather belts, wallets, rag dolls, etc. The Board of Education sends a teacher for four hours a week. If necessary, the hospital furnishes drugs, lends bed, sheets and bedpans. For a mother who gets worn out with nursing, or just needs to get away from the sick child once in a while, the hospital sends a housekeeper or a babysitter...
Says Group Therapist Dr. Joseph Abrahams, taking a crack at carpet weaving and other traditional therapeutic practices: "What they're trying to do is to reach back toward society . . . The object is for them to learn to live with people, not with rugs...
ROSLYN M. RICE, O.T.R. Chief Occupational Therapist...
...doctors' language, Fred was doing nicely. Though his 900-lb. iron lung still looked like his permanent home, his life in most other respects was almost normal. Now down to one physical therapist and two nurses (from a high of six), he gets out of his lung for three to seven hours each day, sits up in a light respirator, even "walks" a bit in a birdcage-like contraption...
Only ten years out of Dartmouth but carefully trained in the business, young Spiegel proved himself a hardworking, fertile-brained therapist. He trimmed the catalogue mailing list, concentrated on selling fewer people more items with big profit margins. Most important, he put sales on a send-no-money basis. Result: Spiegel's started turning profits...