Word: treat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army sets up three levels at which psychiatric cases are treated. First is the battalion aid station. There, the battalion surgeon (though no psychiatrist) is supposed to single out the simple cases of fatigue and treat them on the spot with a day or two of rest, plenty of good hot food, and a few words of reassurance. It helps, too, to remind a soldier that his buddies are still up there, taking it, and need him. Usually, the patient hates the idea of letting them down...
...psychiatrist. He may do no more than the battalion surgeon does, simply handling the battalion's overflow if there is a rush of cases. Or he may keep the patient a couple of days longer; his interviews are more searching, and he may have time to treat moderately severe cases with a "truth drug" and let the patient act out the battle experiences and emotions which bedevil him. Finally, there is the Eighth Army's hospital in Seoul, camouflaged under the name of a "holding company." Even there, patients from the front lines stay only a few days...
...other. They must also consider whether the patient has been reared as a boy or a girl. Then the surgeons leave as nearly perfect a male or female as they can. Less extreme cases, which show only a few features of the opposite sex, are proportionately easier to treat...
...doesn't presume to treat either subject systematically. Instead, he places them in the framework of an examination of "the cultural significance of what has been going on in science since, say, 1935." Even in this context, however, one notices an interpretation peculiar to him. His approach to the whole problem is quite unlike that of the modern popularizers or even Harvard's Philip Frank or Richard von Mises. Common sense rather than system-building pervades throughout...
...letters to the writer is a prisoner and not one of the English professors whon advise other college debate teams. This latter impression is accentuated when you meet him. His manner is so cultured and intelligent that you treat him as you treat a faculty member...