Word: patient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legalizing mercy killing. General Practitioner Dr. Maurice L. Millard, 58, whose father founded England's Euthanasia Society 22 years ago, had touched off a debate on the subject in the British press with his bland statement in a Rotary Club speech that he had recently given a suffering patient, near death from cancer, a lethal dose of a drug, after she had "made her peace with God" and settled her affairs. "What I did . . . was to give her a drug to keep her asleep until she died," explained Dr. Millard. Many other M.D.s approved, and Methodist Weatherhead rallied...
Rodeo's Home. Second of three sons of a patient, pious couple of German-Lutheran descent. Lyman Lemnitzer was born Aug. 29, 1899, in Honesdale, Pa. (pop. 6,000). Thrifty father William worked up in 53 years at the local shoemaking plant from odd-job boy to vice-president, built a fortresslike house on the right bank of the Lackawaxen River (one small bridge later named after Lyman). Poorer kids ate butter, but the Lemnitzer boys got their bread dry or lard smeared. They dutifully did their chores (dishwashing, lawn mowing), earned their spending money at part-time jobs...
...drinks, even against his wishes. Next he thinks often about drinking, its balm to life's stresses, begins drinking through the weekend and taking Monday off from his job to recuperate. Though a doctor who knows him well may spot such telltale symptoms early, "all too often the patient is unwilling to see or unwilling to admit that as yet his drinking is a problem...
Time for Treatment. "Overt alcoholism," the last good chance for recovery, spans roughly 5.9 years. The patient becomes a liquor hoarder, buys large quantities, worries whether he has enough to last through some particular crisis. This behavior is followed closely by drinking before breakfast (more than 95% of all alcoholics treated at Shadel Hospital have admitted doing so). The patient insists that he never gets "drunk," which may be true, since a constantly high level of blood alcohol need not impair his actions at first. Later it does; more and more he cannot seem to "hold" his liquor, may finally...
Little Hope. Ultimate symptoms multiply-delirium tremens, extreme nervousness, avitaminosis. The patient deteriorates physically, socially, maritally, emotionally, occupationally, neurologically. Treatment becomes more difficult; the prognosis rapidly dims. The alcoholic has hit bottom. Mean time for Dr. O'Hollaren's 147 patients: 18.4 years...