But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.

That was in the days before blood banks, of course, and transfusions had to be given directly from donor to patient.

The man's voice was a sweet, patient whisper.

Each time Letch `` went up '' in his `` lines '', I was the one to be patient, helpful and apologetic while he indulged in outbursts of temperament, profanity and abuse, blaming others, going into `` sulks '' and, on more occasions than I care to count, storming off the `` set '' for the rest of the day.

This patient was a 65-year-old white male accountant who entered the New York Hospital for his fourth and terminal admission on June 26, 1959, because of disabling weakness and general debility.

In September, 1958, the patient developed generalized weakness and fatigue which was concurrent with exacerbation of his anemia ; ;

Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.

From March 3 to May 1, 1949, the patient was maintained on dexamethasone, 3 to 6 mg. daily.

Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.

It seems clear, when one takes into consideration the exceedingly defective eyesight of the patient ( we shall describe it in detail in connection with our second question, the one concerning the psychical blindness of the patient ), that he had to rely on his sense of touch much more than the usual portfolio-maker and that consequently that faculty was most probably more sensitive to shape and size than that of a person with normal vision.

And so the authors conclude: `` The conduct of the patient in his every-day life and in his work, even more than the foregoing facts ( mentioned above under 1 ), leave positively no room for doubt that the sense of touch, in the ordinary sense of the word, was unaffected ; ;

When the patient was not allowed to move his body in any way at all, the following striking results occurred.

( This patient, in actuality, was a neurasthenic who had almost come to the point of accepting the fact that it was not her soma but her psyche that was the cause of her difficulty.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

It was just that she felt deeply about every patient on the ward and wanted to believe that they might benefit from their treatment there.

The word " extreme " ( final ) indicated either that it was the last of the sacramental unctions ( after the anointings at Baptism, Confirmation and, if received, Holy Orders ) or because at that time it was normally administered only when a patient was in extremis.

In April 1906, Mrs Deter died and Alzheimer had the patient records and the brain brought to Munich where he was working at Kraepelin's lab.

For nearly twenty years he battled an amphetamine addiction ; during the 1960s he was a patient of the notorious Max Jacobson, known as " Dr. Feelgood ", who administered injections of " vitamins with enzymes " that were in fact laced with amphetamines.

They have model kitchens, a sick room with a model patient in bed, and a nursery with a life-like doll.

I stood at the bedside of my patient one day and beheld a very sick man in terrible pain.

Turning toward the patient again, I -- I can't describe what happened to me then, except to say that I felt sick.

The intellectual activity that produces material artifacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state.

Thyrotoxic crisis ( or thyroid storm ) is a rare but severe complication of hyperthyroidism, which may occur when a thyrotoxic patient becomes very sick or physically stressed.

Horace Cannon drowned August 7, 1851 when Joseph was fifteen years old as he tried to reach a sick patient by crossing Sugar Creek.

This serotype had only been isolated once before, from a sick patient in 1975.

Avicenna was persuaded to the case and sent a message to the patient, asking him to be happy as the butcher was coming to slaughter him, and the sick man rejoiced.

An ambulance is a vehicle for transportation of sick or injured people to, from or between places of treatment for an illness or injury, and in some instances will also provide out of hospital medical care to the patient.

* Charity ambulance – A special type of patient transport ambulance is provided by a charity for the purpose of taking sick children or adults on trips or vacations away from hospitals, hospices or care homes where they are in long term care.

Women may be more likely to receive a personality disorder diagnosis if they reject the female role by being hostile, successful or sexually active ; alternatively if a woman presents with psychiatric symptoms but does not conform to a traditional passive sick role, she may be labelled as a " difficult " patient and given the stigmatizing diagnosis of BPD.

More recent critics have noted the possibility of tertiary gain, when a patient is induced unconsciously to display a symptom because of the desires of others ( as when a controlling husband enjoys the docility of his sick wife ).

As with sensitivity, it can be looked at as the probability that the test result is negative given that the patient is not sick.

It can be seen as the probability that the test is positive given that the patient is sick.

Dr. Niide brings Yasumoto along to rescue a sick twelve-year-old girl from a brothel ( fighting off a local gang of toughs to do so ) and then assigns the girl to Yasumoto as his first patient.

As an example of this logic, every nurse who cares for a terminally ill Alzheimer's or cancer patient, a comatose individual, or an individual in a vegetative state, is one less nurse to take care of a sick baby or a 12-year-old gunshot victim.

Shock treatment means you have a very sick patient you have to operate before the patient dies.

The treatment for hepatitis B includes a course of alpha interferon ; this is a very expensive treatment which lasts for around 12 – 15 weeks and makes the patient very sick.

According to Cardinal Kim, Kim compared President Park to " a sick patient " who needed weak medicine initailly.

The arrival of a nurse for morning care can be both a source of hope and dread, depending on what a patient is sick from.

Two months later, Gogarty was kidnapped by a group of anti-Treaty militants, who lured him out of his house and into a waiting car under the pretext of bringing him to visit a sick patient.

This is common in the work force, if a patient becomes sick and takes a leave of absence.

Introduced on Whitsunday 1549, after considerable debate and revision in Parliament — but there is no evidence that it was ever submitted to either Convocation — it was said to have pleased neither reformers nor their opponents, indeed the Catholic Bishop Gardiner could say of it was that it " was patient of a catholic interpretation ".

Customers are likely not as patient to work through malfunctions or gaps in user safety, and there is an expectation that the usability of systems should be somewhat intuitive: “ it helps make the machine an extension of the way I think — not how it wants me to think .”

More recently, both Elms and librarian Lee Weinstein have gathered circumstantial evidence to support the case for Linebarger's being " Allen ," but both concede there is no direct proof that Linebarger was ever a patient of Lindner's or that he suffered from a disorder similar to that of " Kirk Allen.

Although success rates are not usually equal to that of epilepsy surgery, it is a reasonable alternative when the patient is reluctant to proceed with any required invasive monitoring, when appropriate presurgical evaluation fails to uncover the location of epileptic foci, or when there are multiple epileptic foci.

In addition, there is always the fear that the viral vector, once inside the patient, may recover its ability to cause disease.

In as much as patients can throw themselves into the nervous sleep, and manifest all the usual phenomena of Mesmerism, through their own unaided efforts, as I have so repeatedly proved by causing them to maintain a steady fixed gaze at any point, concentrating their whole mental energies on the idea of the object looked at ; or that the same may arise by the patient looking at the point of his own finger, or as the Magi of Persia and Yogi of India have practised for the last 2, 400 years, for religious purposes, throwing themselves into their ecstatic trances by each maintaining a steady fixed gaze at the tip of his own nose ; it is obvious that there is no need for an exoteric influence to produce the phenomena of Mesmerism.

If for any reason there are complications, the village midwife will forward the ‘ patient ’ to the ‘ nurse ’, and if she is unable to help then they are forwarded to the Primary Health Center.

A rarer form of hyperphenylalaninemia occurs when PAH is normal, but there is a defect in the biosynthesis or recycling of the cofactor tetrahydrobiopterin ( BH < sub > 4 </ sub >) by the patient.

Every patient with a point total of 6 or higher is unequivocally classified as an RA patient, provided he has synovitis in at least one joint and given that there is no other diagnosis better explaining the synovitis.

Mark Yarhouse and Warren Throckmorton, of the private Christian school Grove City College, in 2002 published " Ethical Issues in Attempts to Ban Reorientation Therapies ", which argues that conversion therapy should be available out of respect for a patient ’ s values system and because there is evidence that it can be effective.

Moreover, there are probably several causes of vulvodynia, and some may be individual to the patient.

* Discloses, or threatens to disclose, to a supervisor or to a public body an activity, policy, or practice of the employer or another employer, with whom there is a business relationship, that the employee reasonably believes is in violation of a law, or a rule or regulation issued under the law, or, in the case of an employee who is a licensed or certified health care professional, reasonably believes constitutes improper quality of patient care ;

* Provides information to, or testifies before, any public body conducting an investigation, hearing or inquiry into any violation of law, or a rule or regulation issued under the law by the employer or another employer, with whom there is a business relationship, or, in the case of an employee who is a licensed or certified health care professional, provides information to, or testifies before, any public body conducting an investigation, hearing or inquiry into quality of patient care ; or

For instance, plastic surgeon ’ s classification of beauty is subjective, but the plastic surgeon cannot treat his or her patient without the patient ’ s consent, therefore, there cannot be any political abuse of plastic surgery.

However, it has one distinct advantage, H-FIRE does not cause muscle contraction in the patient and therefore there is no need for a paralytic agent.

Distinguishing DID from malingering is a concern when financial or legal gains are an issue, and factitious disorder may also be considered if there patient has a history of help or attention seeking.

There are a variety of types of mastectomy in use, and the type that a patient decides to undergo ( or whether he or she will decide instead to have a lumpectomy ) depends on factors such as size, location, and behavior of the tumor ( if there is one ), whether or not the surgery is prophylactic, and whether or not the patient intends to undergo reconstructive surgery.

For example, when a patient displays certain symptoms, there might be various possible causes, but one of these is preferred above others as being more probable.

He overheard in another hospital that she was there taking care of a burned patient.