Word: patients
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only medical degrees are "hare won." A Ph.D. in clinical psychology requires four years of graduate training and a year of internship. I doubt that many of us clinical psychologists simply "chat sympathetically and tell a patient 'You're much too hard on yourself...
...said the cancer present in patients with the risk factors is not life-threatening. "The cancers observed are relatively minor, local tumors that can be excised in the office of the patient's doctor," he said. "The lesions cause no pain," he added...
...American moving to Australia and becoming a fisherman is as likely to develop cancer as a psoriasis patient without risk factors receiving photochemotherapy," Parrish added...
...internal reward systems may be constantly turned on. His University of Chicago colleague Richard J. Miller is tracing the link between dopamine and endorphins. At M.I.T., Richard Wurtman, who is studying various neurotransmitters, notably acetylcholine, has found that their production can be increased by diet. Indeed, by upping a patient's intake of foods rich in lecithin-a precursor of acetylcholine -especially egg yolks, meat and fish, such disorders as senility, manic-depression and the loss of motor control associated with the degenerative disease Huntington's chorea, or tardive dyskinesia, can be substantially alleviated...
...Helen Chichester-Redfern, a terminal cancer patient who lives in the same English cathedral town as Hermitage. A deathbed friendship is struck, along with a sizzling affair with Mrs. C.-R.'s daughter Dinah, a churchgoing guitarist and bedroom athlete with the sexual etiquette of a praying mantis...