Word: patient
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harris is anything but patient with the drug-addicted women who each year give birth to some 500,000 drug-exposed children in the U.S., many of them brain-damaged and HIV-infected. As Isiah's birth mother "popped out babies every year," Harris says, "I got angrier and angrier." Harris adopted the last four of the woman's eight children. But she also "called the D.A. and the police to see if I could make a citizen's arrest of the mother for endangering her kids. I wrote the politicians, but they don't care. The social workers were...
...August Perlman's new patient is a doozy, a 13-year-old girl with two personalities. One has a morbid fear of water; the other insists that she is a survivor of the mythic deluge that engulfed continental Atlantis millenniums before humans got around to organizing memory into history. Order a brain scan or a cocktail of antipsychotics? Neither choice is likely, not because the gorgon at the HMO refuses to sign off on the procedures but because Dr. Perlman's clinic for the interestingly unhinged is located in low-tech London at the beginning of the 20th century...
...plays Malcolm Crowe, the infinitely committed psychiatrist who pries the secret out of the boy and makes him understand that the ghosts are lonely too. One has to wonder if audiences eager for scarier visions of the supernatural will respond to this benign tale. But it unfolds with a patient intelligence. The Sixth Sense might not scare you out of your wits, but it could reward them...
...that adventure racing is more fun than difficult and frightening; so I'll enter my first race in the fall. I also grasped certain truths (which may be evident to others): if you begin an endeavor with a sound strategy, and if you remain flexible, adaptable and patient, you will succeed. If you consistently respect, support and rely on teammates, you are better off than you would be alone. You are capable of far more than you realize and can transform the unknown you fear into the known you control and enjoy. Adventure offsites--like condoms and trash bags...
...comes down to whether consumers are willing to pay for increasingly costly health care or subject themselves to a form of medical rationing. That's the core issue to emerge from two surveys, released Wednesday, centered on patient and doctor experiences with HMOs. The doctor data, compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation together with the Harvard School of Public Health, found a high degree of physician dissatisfaction with a system that continually questions their professional judgment. Among the results: 79 percent of doctors reported trouble getting approval for a drug they wanted to prescribe; 69 percent had difficulty getting approval...