Word: patient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former mental patient showed up at Universal Studios last December and allegedly shot and killed two unarmed guards after they refused his demand to see actor Michael Landon...
...magicians are charlatans. The ^ air of the operating room, where once the doctor was sovereign, is now so dense with the second guesses of insurers, regulators, lawyers, consultants and risk managers that the physician has little room to breathe, much less heal. Small wonder that the doctor-patient relationship, once something of a sacred covenant, has been infected by the climate in which it grows...
...across the U.S., among family doctors and brain surgeons, in large cities and small towns, the tensions are growing. Perhaps many doctors just miss their pedestals and the days when their patients were more respectful and their diagnoses unchallenged. But the soreness may also reflect the stresses and strains of a profession in transition. Nothing in medicine is stationary: the blinding speed of technological advances, the splintering effects of specialization, the onset of medical consumerism, the threat of malpractice suits have all bruised the doctor-patient relationship in recent years...
...Pierce raise the $10,000 or so required to finish his boat and get it launched before the whole project sinks under debt and futility? How will he manage his passionate connection with Elsie while maintaining his marriage and giving no pain to his patient, long-suffering wife? Answers eventually arrive, but not before some spirited narrative interludes: vivid scenes of hunting and "sticking" swordfish on the high seas, a sexual encounter that turns into an extended bout of mud wrestling, a hair-raising attempt to outsail a major hurricane...
...younger generation which took women's freedoms for granted has just been the patient of shock therapy. The abortion issue, in the end, may have finally gotten the Woman's Movement moving again...