Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Looking beyond Harvard, Johnson hopes to attend graduate school for two years at either Boston University. Duke or Columbia where she will study to be a physical therapist. "I don't want to be a doctor," she says. "It's just too intense. As therapist you can work closely with a fewer amount of patients, and it's also not the kind of job you get tired of going to every...
...enrolled him in a new kind of program for the elderly that allowed him to continue living in his own home. Three days a week, from 10 a.m. to 3 in the afternoon, Crandall goes to a day care center for adults. There, nurses monitor his health, a physical therapist provides him with exercises, a nutritionist plans his lunch and friends keep him interested in the world. Together, says Crandall, "they give me the incentive to live...
Hadara, for example, has managed to work her way toward feelings of accommodation largely on her own?though not without professional help. Zion Ben-Eli, a young therapist in Nahariya, treated Hadara for several months after the incident. In the beginning she clammed up entirely, would not go to school, would not leave the house. She expressed herself in art. First she painted a hand, which she called the "hand of fate." It is dark green, almost black, outlined in white with watery blue streaks running along the index finger. It looks more like a bay than a hand...
...occupational therapist in a rehabilitation center and frequently work with quadriplegics. I have taught those who are paralyzed to feed themselves, dress, shave, put on makeup, write, type, paint, cook, and do push ups in a wheelchair (to prevent bedsores...
...administered at intervals: three weeks of treatment would be followed by two weeks of rest over a four-month period. While the symptoms were relieved for up to a year, the results were not as successful as those at Stanford, possibly because of the gaps between treatments. Harvard Radiation Therapist James A. Belli, 50, says patients' response depends on how far their disease has advanced. "If the joints have not been structurally altered," says he, "the pain is almost completely eliminated." Side effects were transient and similar to those experienced by Hodgkin's patients: fatigue, sore throat...