Word: physician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...docility: woman in white, sister of mercy, ministering angel. Walking softly through hospital corridors, tending to the ill and infirm, nurses did every duty from cleaning bedpans to assisting in surgery. They performed wearying, thankless tasks with such uncomplaining efficiency that doctors and patients alike could consider them the physician's handmaidens...
...traces the record back to the Duke's childhood as the pampered son of a stern Hartford physician. "An old and sad story began to unwind," he reports, "of love's shortcut through stuff." Early on, the Duke absorbed the notion that goals could be reached without the bother of achievement. Similarly, inconvenient truths could be wished away. Jewish was not the thing to be in the yacht-club world the Duke aspired to, so he simply erased this fact about himself; he never told his sons about their heritage...
...Bedouins call such payments paltry. Scoffs one spokesman: "Eighty-three dollars-that's two sacks of flour." They protest the arbitrary denial of judicial appeals. Says Dr. Yunis Abu Rabiya, a respected Bedouin physician in Beersheba: "How can a country that calls itself democratic pass a law that denies the elementary citizen's right of appeal to the courts?" The Bedouins also charge that the proposed law is based on outright "racism" because it is aimed exclusively at Arabs. The Bedouins have a case: last week Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon began long and detailed negotiations to compensate...
...idea that neurotic conflict had a sexual component was also conventional. Indeed, says the author, many of the ideas that Freud synthesized into psychoanalysis had been around for years: among them, such now familiar concepts as the unconscious, the pleasure principle, regression and sublimation. Fliess, a Berlin physician who was Freud's closest friend for years, convinced Freud that all human beings were bisexual, and also offered ideas on the latency period (low sexuality preceding puberty), reaction formation (a defensive attraction to desires that are opposite of one's deeper, dangerous wishes) and something very close...
...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...