Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bler-Ross concludes that the patient who is not officially told that his illness is fatal always discovers the truth anyway, and may resent the deception, however well meant. Her message is above all for those around the dying patient, and it is one so obvious that it has long been overlooked. The dying are living too, bitter at being prematurely consigned-by indifference, false cheerfulness and isolation-to the bourn of the dead. It is not death they fear, but dying, a process almost as painful to see as to endure, and one on which society-and even medicine...
...Viet Nam, the fighting man is seldom out of reach of a psychiatrist; each combat division has its own. There are also two fully staffed mental health clinics that accept the disturbed patient in a most unmartial atmosphere. Military ceremony and the rule book are dropped at the door. Says Colonel Thomas Murray, chief Army psychiatrist in South Viet Nam: "Some of our psychiatrists are the most improbable military guys: soft, flabby, unexercised." In this deliberately demilitarized ambience, the soldier's recovery begins...
...there, too, that combat therapy radically and abruptly departs from its civilian equivalent. "Our aim is not to please the patient," - says Murray. "At home, the psychiatrist's orientation is toward kindness, consideration, tender loving care. Here, to be kind would be to send your patient home." The purpose of military therapy, however, is not cure but amelioration. It is to get a disabled fighting man back on the line-or, if possible, to keep him on the line...
...giant fan so limp that it can hardly stand up, much less turn. Or three-way extension plugs, tall as children, and all ready to totter up to the viewer and command: "Take me to your leader!" His gleaming soft toilet slumps and sags like a geriatric patient. Oldenburg knows precisely what he is doing. "The important thing about humor is that it opens people. They relax their guard, and you can get your serious intentions across. If I were as didactic in my work as I really am, I would bore people to death. But because...
...disease strikes abruptly but insidiously, and many treat it as if it were flu. After three days of fever, headache and vomiting, victims often deteriorate rapidly, with skin hemorrhages, nosebleeds, bloody vomiting, clammy hands and feet and abdominal pain. The febrile, blood-depleted patient may enter shock, which proves fatal for half of those...