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.

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.

A somewhat less fragmented hebephrenic patient of mine, who used to often seclude herself in her room, often sounded through the closed door -- as I would find on passing by, between our sessions -- for all the world like two persons, a scolding mother and a defensive child.

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.

( 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.

Moreover, the diabetic patient who relies on cure by the quack device and therefore cuts off his insulin intake can be committing suicide.

A patient could receive up to 300 days paid-for nursing home care under a `` unit formula '' allowing more of such care for those who use none or only part of the hospital-care credit.

Librarians, a patient breed of men and women who have borne much with dedication, can begin to see results today.

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.

However, because it relies on lack of concentration or discipline by the batsman, it can be risky against patient and skilled players, especially batsmen who are strong on the leg side.

Generally, a patient who is unable to voluntarily open the eyes, does not have a sleep-wake cycle, is unresponsive in spite of strong tactile ( painful ), or verbal stimuli and who generally scores between 3 to 8 on the Glasgow Coma Scale is considered to be in coma.

Orthodox practitioners treating a patient who decides to switch to medical care will typically resign the case because combining methods is discouraged.

The treatment can be physically exhausting for the patient, who might already be very tired from cancer-related fatigue.

For example, a patient who is overly argumentative might instead perceive others as argumentative and himself as blameless.

Following a large donation from the Jewish German American banker James Loeb who had at one time been a patient, and promises of support from ' patrons of science ', the German Institute for Psychiatric Research was founded in 1917 in Munich.

This evidence convinced most physicians who specialize in diabetes care that an important goal of treatment is to make the biochemical profile of the diabetic patient ( blood lipids, HbA1c, etc.

A licensed physician, psychologist, social worker, or nurse practitioner who has examined the patient or a police officer may bring a potential patient to the emergency room for forced evaluation without approval from a judge.

The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.

Jacob is also cited in the Hadith as an example of one who was patient and trusting in God in the face of suffering.

He played a physically and emotionally scarred grade school teacher in Pay It Forward ( 2000 ), a patient in a mental institution who may or may not be an alien in K-Pax ( 2001 ), and singer Bobby Darin in Beyond the Sea ( 2004 ).

The same year, Russian electrical engineer Semyon Kirlian and his wife Valentina developed Kirlian photography after observing a patient in Krasnodar hospital who was receiving medical treatment from a high-frequency electrical generator.

* David Moor ( born 1947 ), British general practitioner who was prosecuted for the euthanasia of a patient

Are they indifferent to the fact that the dog can easily pick up germs from the preceding patient??

One of the advantages of this method is that the `` pill '' can remain in the patient for several days, permitting observation under natural conditions.

in working with these patients the therapist eventually gets to do some at least private mulling over of the possible meaning of a belch, or the passage of flatus, not only because he is reduced to this for lack of anything else to analyze, but also because he learns that even these animal-like sounds constitute forms of communication in which, from time to time, quite different things are being said, long before the patient can become sufficiently aware of these, as distinct feelings and concepts, to say them in words.

If the patient can perceive figure kinesthetically when he cannot perceive it visually, then, it would seem, the sense of touch has immediate contact with the spatial aspects of things in independence of visual representations, at least in regard to two dimensions, and, as we shall see, even this much spatial awareness on the part of unaided touch is denied by the authors.

In such diseases as cancer, tuberculosis, and heart disease, early diagnosis and treatment are so vital that the waste of time by the patient with Doctor Fraud's cure-all gadget can prove fatal.

Physicians can find evidence of sensory ataxia during physical examination by having the patient stand with his / her feet together and eyes shut.

A video clip with a patient exhibiting Receptive aphasia can be found here

On some occasions a patient with a brain AVM may become aware of the noise, which can compromise hearing and interfere with sleep in addition to causing psychological distress.

If BCG is accidentally given to an immunocompromised patient ( e. g., an infant with SCID ), it can cause disseminated or life-threatening infection.

The biotechnology industry has also been instrumental in developing molecular diagnostic devices that can be used to define the target patient population for a given biopharmaceutical.

Bipolar NOS can still significantly impair and adversely affect the quality of life of the patient.

Withdrawal is best managed by transferring the physically dependent patient to an equivalent dose of diazepam because it has the longest half-life of all of the benzodiazepines, is metabolised into long-acting active metabolites and is available in low-potency tablets, which can be quartered for smaller doses.

These tests can include ultrasounds of the head, x-ray computed tomography ( CAT scan ), electroencephalogram, HIV test, full blood count, thyroid function test, liver function test, urea and creatinine levels and if patient is on lithium, lithium levels are taken.

When brain tissue from a CJD patient is examined under a microscope, many tiny holes can be seen where whole areas of nerve cells have died.

The defective protein can be transmitted by contaminated harvested human brain products, Immunoglobulins ( IVIG ), corneal grafts, dural grafts or electrode implants ( acquired or iatrogenic form: iCJD ); it can be inherited ( hereditary or familial form: fCJD ); or it may appear for the first time in the patient ( sporadic form: sCJD ).

If so, the next question is whether the patient can respond in a meaningful way to questions and commands.

# Make sure patient is in an actual comatose state and is not mistaken for locked-in state ( patient will either be able to voluntarily move his eyes or blink ) or psychogenic unresponsiveness ( caloric stimulation of the vestibular apparatus will result in slow deviation of eyes towards the stimulation followed by rapid correction to mid-line ; this response can't be voluntarily suppressed: therefore, if the patient doesn't have this response, then psychogenic coma can be ruled out as a differential )

Due to the unconscious status of the patient, only a limited number of the nerves can be assessed.

One author advises that " the knowledge gained from clinical research does not directly answer the primary clinical question of what is best for the patient at hand " and suggests that evidence-based medicine should not discount the value of clinical experience.

For example, a patient asked to guess which of two faces they have seen most recently may give the correct answer the majority of the time, in spite of stating that they have never seen either of the faces before.

In his autobiography, Norbert described his father as calm and patient, unless he ( Norbert ) failed to give a correct answer, at which his father would lose his temper.

Evidence of blindsight can be indirectly observed in children as young as two months, although there is difficulty in determining the type in a patient who is not old enough to answer questions.

The answer is sure to indicate one of the extreme points of one of the patient ’ s constructs.

The group set out to answer this question ( among others ): " Does free medical care lead to better health than insurance plans that require the patient to shoulder part of the cost?

In Season Eight's second episode " The Longer You Stay ", Weaver failed to answer repeated pages from Doctors Malucci & Chen when a patient being tended to by them has complications.