Word: treating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctors also criticized doctors in a panel on how best to treat the patient who has some degree of congestive heart failure. Brooklyn's William Dock argued that since many such patients are going to have to live with their disease for ten to 15 years, they should be started promptly on a simple diet which a housewife can handle without a hospital's fancy kitchen gear, and they should be given prescriptions for simple, greenleaf digitalis instead of more expensive proprietary drugs. "In fact," summed up Dr. Dock, "the main faults in the treatment of these patients...
Nineteenth century British liberals agreed more often than not with free-thinking John Thelwall, who blew the froth off his beer and said: "So would I treat all kings." The majority of 20th century Socialists are more apt to raise their pints in ancient and loyal homage. The change has come about because British monarchs, since Victoria, have learned to express and affect what modern men call "the aspirations of the collective subconscious." Historian Walter Bagehot thought a better name was "magic," and held that too much light should not be let in on it. For the heart...
...master's and a doctorate, however, was never a handicap. Students flocked to his classes, crowded into his office in the afternoon, swarmed into his cluttered living room at night. There, with his wife ("Grandma") and daughter (Helena Ayesha Theodora), Monkey Wrench would entertain for hours. "Treat 'em like grownups," he would say of his students. "But remember, they're nothing but kids. You've got to be as young as they...
...doctors believed that the sulfas and antibiotics delayed the appearance of complications and may have masked them so that they became harder to treat. Their conclusion: the wonder drugs should never be given for the cold itself, but saved for possible complications...
...Adults are worse than children in the dentist's chair, said Dentist Ralph L. Ireland of Lincoln, Neb. His summation: "I operate on the premise that if you treat the child like an adult, and the adult like a child, you get along better with both...