Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Obviously the motives of both the parents and the state of Massachusetts are the same: they want Chad to survive. But the essential question for Chad Green is what kind of treatment he finally gets-and how long it keeps him alive...
Black plastic bags of garbage piled up in minimountains on the sidewalks of London last week. Birmingham's major hospitals sent most of their patients home, reserving treatment only for emergency cases and the critically ill. In Liverpool, authorities were debating whether it would be necessary to bury bodies at sea, since local gravediggers refused to work...
Kents are often used to obtain better and faster treatment at hard-pressed state clinics, where services are supposedly gratis. But bribery always has its risks. A physician informed a patient that he would require several hundred packs of Kents to undertake a complicated course of treatment. The patient worked hard to obtain the requisite cigarettes. When she turned the payoff over to the doctor, he in turn used the Kents to help buy a hard-to-get passport. He then departed the country, leaving his patient untreated-and smoking...
...much more than simply another anatomy of a January-June mismatch. In Malamud's world, acts have consequences, mindless pleasures lead to reflective pain. Things start badly. Dubin takes Fanny on a quick trip to Yenice, hoping to feed on her vitality and youth, and gets the callow treatment he deserves. Stung, he returns home and holes up for a long, bitter winter of dis content: "He fought winter as if it were the true enemy: if he tore into it the freeze would vanish, his ills be gone, his life, his work, fall into place." Nothing helps. Lawrence...
...police are very gun-ho; they carry .357 magnums and I don't know much about guns, but I know a .357 is hard to survive," he says. "I give the police the 'yes sir-no sir' treatment to try to avoid trouble...