Word: treates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...significant, and unfair because any books currently checked out could not be included. But it suggests at least, that a lot of books in Widener are going unused. And it shows a fallacy in all of the plans the library mavens are considering to alleviate the space crunch--they treat all 3,160,000 books in Widener (give or take a few hundred thousand) as equi-useful...
...think, much less relax. And they are not the only ones complaining. Patients gripe that the products of this regimen, the current crop of doctors, have no compassion, run their practices like assembly lines and are more fascinated by tests and procedures than by the human beings they treat. Medical school deans and faculty members, meanwhile, worry about turning out narrow-minded, unenthusiastic graduates who have little perspective on the facts they have swallowed. After conducting a survey at Stanford, Medical Professor Saul Rosenberg concluded that medical students are widely perceived as "aggressive, competitive, narrow, dishonest, unfriendly individuals, in other...
...students is a matter of debate, but a number of educators feel that it is at least worth trying. At Brown, students "practice" medicine with professional actors who play patients. The scenes are videotaped, and students review them later to learn how to communicate better with those they treat. Columbia has taken a more academic approach by establishing the Center for the Study of Society and Medicine, which, says Dean Tapley, will offer instruction on "how to deal with the patient, the patient's family and his whole life, rather than 'the third bed on the left with...
...diagnose accurately, you can treat appropriately," he continues, explaining the "multiple sleep latency" test. During the course of one weekend a month, a patient is given the opportunity to sleep five times in 10 hours, and the sleep latency--time between going to bed and falling asleep--is measured...
...does Stakes "treat appropriately?" Some disorders, such as insomnia, can be treated in the office. Other patients responded to antidepressant drugs, and some to simple adjustments in the sleep schedule. Still others only need reassurance that their sleep patterns are, in fact, normal. "We get patients coming in thinking they're not getting enough sleep when their sleep architecture looks great." Stakes remarks, referring to the structure of the printouts...