Word: patients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* A first teleplay by Joe Palmer Jr.; Actor Richard Boone (The Rivalry; Have Gun, Will Travel) plays a tuberculosis patient of unusual imagination...
...advance rebuttal of charges that such things cannot really happen, Psychiatrist Searles cites his own experience with a woman patient who seemed to be trying to seduce him while talking international politics. "Responding on these two unrelated levels," he says, "I found it such a strain that I felt as though I were losing my mind." In this case, sanity and psychiatry...
Families of patients who have been in mental hospitals for a long time usually do not want them home, says Charles L. Rose in Mental Hygiene. On the social service staff of the VA Hospital in Bedford, Mass., Rose found from a survey that many relatives do not expect the hospital to effect a cure and really do not want it to-they regard it as a place of detention, not healing. They are more comfortable feeling that the case is hopeless: if the patient never improves, he can never be sent home where "there is no room...
...tell them they are not eating right, give them vitamins, and since no normal, active mother has any time to eat right, this catches them all." Some doctors become obsessed with a few pounds' overweight, or fancied excesses in coffee drinking or smoking, and deprive the patient of something she enjoys...
...matter what method they use, the doctors cannot estimate how long these remissions may last. Even with a patient's own marrow, they cannot be sure that it was as healthy as it looked. But the Boston team and Dr. Thomas agree that if the principle can be shown to work in leukemia, it may be possible to extend it to other forms of widespread cancer...