Word: patient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Compound-Q affair has heightened concern about the widespread use of unproven drugs. "There is always a tension between treatment of a patient and the need for solid drug testing," says Dr. Frank Young, the FDA commissioner. But AIDS has increased that tension. Those with the disease have protested for years that the FDA's traditional methods of testing an experimental drug's safety and effectiveness were too slow. "People have lost faith in the system," says Richard Dunne, executive director of Manhattan's Gay Men's Health Crisis...
Areturn to American culture may be the cure for America's decline, but Fallows' specific prescriptions for a group of domestic issues may not be acceptable to the patient. For example, the licensing and other regulation of professions--a recent phenomenon that Fallows says creates barriers for competent people seeking new jobs--is certainly not going to disappear in the near future, despite his recommendations...
...surprisingly, the amnesic society behaves much like the amnesic individual. The Korsakoffian patient, for example, fills in his gaps with fiction. He makes up stories, often gigantic confabulations, to make historical ends meet. The video culture too fills in the gaps of real life with mountains of fiction. (The average American absorbs more make-believe drama in a year than his ancestors did in a lifetime.) And it ties history's loose ends with a form of fabrication it calls docudrama...
Steps are being taken to fill medicine's information void. In a new field of study called patient-outcomes research, hospitals, clinics, health-maintenance organizations and other medical groups are collecting data on how well various treatments work. Armed with such knowledge, doctors should be able to get better results. Dr. Paul Ellwood, chairman of the InterStudy health-policy center near Minneapolis, predicts that within a year at least 100 patient- outcomes projects will be under way, with sponsors as diverse as the Cleveland Clinic and the Maine Medical Assessment Foundation. High on the list of treatments to be studied...
Wimbledon begins next week, a tougher stop for a baseliner, though Bjorn Borg contrived to win five in a row that patient way, and Chang has that kind of dream. "I want to be the No. 1 player in the world and have all the best shots in tennis: serve, volley, base line, drop shot, you name it. I try to set my goals as high as I can." If he inspires Asians, Chang will be pleased. "It helped Sweden when Borg came along and made such a big impact. I'm hoping it will also happen in Asia...