Word: patients
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps so. But Psychiatrist Arthur K. Shapiro of Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Medical Center points out that the placebo effect may also be influenced by attitudes of patient and doctor toward drugs and, perhaps more important, toward each other. In fact, says Shapiro, who has collected hundreds of the "useless" nostrums over the years, patient confidence in a physician may be a kind of placebo too, increasing chances of improvement...
...underwriters stopped issuing their policy, as claims began to flow in from leasing companies. Last month one of them, Federal Leasing Inc. of McLean, Va., filed a $627 million damage suit against the London insurance group. Itel, though badly shaken by the new IBM machines, is more patient. Says a spokesman: "There is nothing to indicate that Lloyd's will...
...circulating in it, doctors have been turning to a special blood-separation technique. Used by blood banks for at least a decade and more recently as an experimental therapy for other immune-system disorders like lupus erythematosis, myasthenia gravis and polymyositis, it is somewhat similar to hemodialysis for kidney patients. For three or so hours, the blood is slowly tapped from the body, shunted into a centrifuge, spun and separated into its constituents by weight: heavy red cells sink to the bottom, white cells settle in the middle, platelets and fluid plasma rise to the top. Components can be selectively...
Divorce is major surgery. Even if the operation is a seeming success, the patient is never quite the same. The prevalence of divorce has had an incalculable effect on the fabric of U.S. society, but our playwrights rarely broach the subject. A notable exception is Oliver Hailey. His Father's Day examines the scar tissue of pain; yet his play is saturated with wry, bitchy, gallant and sex-laced humor, the kind of hilarity that rises from the ashes of despair...
...This patient construction, this sense of the intrinsic worth of seeing, combines with Chardin's second gift: his remarkable feeling for the poetic (rather than didactic) moments of human gesture. It permeates his genre scenes and portraits, especially the portraits of children; the gentle muteness that Diderot perceived often turns into a noble ineloquence, as though Piero della Francesca were visiting the nursery. In some way Chardin's absorption in the act of painting paralleled the absorption of children in their games, which he painted. One has only to look at the figure in his portrait Little Girl...