Word: patient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patient observation over the years. Dr. Steche learned the particular dance (really a wiggling walk) that a worker bee does when she wants to steer her worker hivemates to flowers that she has found. As she dances on the vertical comb, the divergence of her dance right or left from the vertical indicates the direction of the flowers in relation to the sun. Its duration tells how far away they are-.4 sec. for 200 yds., 1.3 sec. for 1,000. The rate of wiggling is important, too. Dr. Steche attached tiny magnets to bees' bottoms and found that...
...Food angina can be equally bad: some patients, accustomed to pain after eating, develop a conditioned reflex so that the mere sight of food produces an attack; some, from fear of the pain, starve themselves into another kind of illness. ¶ Physicians can induce angina if, instead of relieving angina worries, they give the patient an exaggerated idea of the gravity of his condition. An electrocardiographic test or the sight of the consulting room may touch off an attack. "Treatment," says Dr. Briggs, loyal to his profession, "is very difficult...
...Remunerative angina" results when the patient gets a reward for his illness. It may be only emotional-sympathy and pampering. Or it can be hard cash from insurance. (This form is becoming less common now that the companies have got wise and refuse...
Above all, Henderson's patient translations (one took him 25 years) capture, unimpaired, the evanescent haiku spirit, which has enchanted Japan for untold centuries...
...Ernie Kovacs as a humanity-minded hospital patient who becomes so fascinated with medical mystique that he buys a secondhand stethoscope for $3 and sends Hippocrates diving for cover...