Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intensely annoying ploy often used by doctors," Potter wrote, "is to treat Patient as if he were as ignorant of all anatomical knowledge as a child of four." He will, for example, "refer to the blood corpuscles as 'the white fellows and the red chaps,' " and will inquire of a constipated lady patient: "How are the bow-wows this morning?" An effective way to reduce such nonsense before it starts, Potter advised, is to cast doubt on the doctor's professionalism: "I am, I suppose, right in calling you Doctor...
...This is a service for the people of Cambridge. Many hospitals have become huge, unwieldy, and impersonal. The welcome for the patient is sometimes not as warm as it should be particularly if he is dressed strangely and identified with the hippie community or alienated youth," Brenner said...
Before the judge reached his decision. Aras told him he would return to the hospital as a voluntary patient to resume his mental therapy. Cratsley said Aras is not in legal custody at the mental hospital. but is subject to the same restrictions imposed on other voluntary patients...
Although the medical report was confidential. the judge's action in permitting Aras to become a voluntary patient appeared to rest on some finding of progress in his mental therapy. Cratsley said that Aras had shown improvement...
...Organized by English guitarist Jimmy Page. Led Zeppelin immediately placed itself in the pantheon of rock with the release of its first album. The group does not have the range of mood or gift of assimilation of the Beatles. the only group which can take Dakker's Lullaby for Patient Grissel and use it touchingly in a song such as Golden Slumbers. Although Led Zeppelin draws upon such blues wellsprings as Robert Johnson and Willie Dixon. it does not make its debts its originality. While Led Zeppelin is not so resonantly lyrical as the Beatles. or self-consciously evangelical...