Word: patients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Polansky tells it-and local residents generally agree-he has become known as virtually the only doctor willing to treat the poor, especially Negroes. "Even before this Medicaid," said one patient, "Dr. Polansky would treat you even if you didn't have the money." Polansky has had to keep his office open seven days a week, and to work twelve-hour days except on Tuesdays and Saturdays, when he let himself off after nine hours. As for his charges, Blue Shield itself notes that they "are not only moderate, but are below average in many significant cases." One example...
...retains a view of history. It makes no attempt to erase the undeniable downhill slide of civilization. For, before Romanticism, must come cynicism. And the cynic says men were never very good. There were only fewer of them. Mrs. Lessing pinpoints the popularization of jazz along with its "patient long-suffering tolerance of other people's disabilities, loyalty to one's intimates, a contained despair" as the beginning of a romanticism of despair. "Not since the days of Werther, "she writes, "has there been so sentimental a cult...
When it comes to telling the patient how to take his medicine, the Stanford professors advise doctors and druggists to use "terms of common household measures like teaspoonful or tablespoonful." That way the patient knows what he is doing. He can only hope that his doctor does...
When Britain's King George III died in 1820, he was blind, deaf and apparently mad. His physicians, limited in their medical knowledge and hindered by protocol in examining their royal patient (they could not inquire how he felt unless he spoke to them first), had long since concluded that the King was "under an entire alienation of mind." George III went down in history as the mad monarch, a judgment accepted by generations of historians and buttressed by psychiatric studies...
...fully understood. It is a group of diseases with many different signs and symptoms. "In some of them the only problem is the undue sensitivity of the skin to sunlight," wrote Professor Abe Goldberg of Glasgow's Western Infirmary in 1966. In others, "the normal life of the patient may be shattered by devastating attacks of abdominal pain, paralysis of limbs, and profound mental upset...