Word: patient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just Hang On. When Brand began his experiment, he hid the straitjackets to keep other attendants from using them. Now, he says with a grin, he has forgotten where he hid them. There is also less need, he finds, for "chemical restraint" (sedative drugs). When a new patient arrives, often in a straitjacket, Brand has a technique: "I give them a good talking to. 'This is your home,' I tell them. 'It's up to you if you are going to have a new life.' Most of them really understand me. Not one has ever...
...Johns Hopkins, surgeons examined their patient again. Their verdict: Joe is suffering from calcium deposits on the right heel, an affliction common enough among ballplayers but most often occurring in the elbow of a player's throwing arm (and then loosely referred to as "elbow chips"). The deposits are also akin to bursitis, in which excess calcium settles in sacks near the joints...
...immediate treatment of Patient DiMaggio the medicos prescribed injections of novocaine and saline to ease the pain, plus local X-ray applications. Future treatment would depend on how Joe responded, but it was pretty clear that he would have to keep off his feet as much as possible...
...does to build and equip (up to $350,000). This kind of money was far beyond the reach of the average radio station owner. *At week's end, as the delegates journeyed homeward, there was no sure cure in sight for the ailing patient...
...Snake Pit. A harrowing adaptation of the bestselling novel, with Olivia de Havilland as the mental patient (TIME...