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.

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.

Diagnosis is based on patient history ( symptoms ) and physical examination backed by an elevation of neutrophilic white blood cells.

He described a patient who had slow progression of dementia as well as subcortical white matter atrophy, ventricle enlargement, aphasia, hemianopsia, and hemiparesis.

If no medical interception of the disease is performed then the disease will continue to worsen as the patient ages due to the continuing atrophy of the white matter from whatever was its original cause.

For example, " When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table " ( lines 2-3 ), the " sawdust restaurants " and " cheap hotels ," the yellow fog, and the afternoon " Asleep ... tired ... or it malingers " ( line 77 ), are reminiscent of languor and decay, while Prufrock's various concerns about his hair and teeth, as well as the mermaids " Combing the white hair of the waves blown back / When the wind blows the water white and black ," show his concern over aging.

In 1988, Loring and Powell gave 290 psychiatrists a transcript of a patient interview and told half of them that the patient was black and the other half white ; they concluded of the results that " Clinicians appear to ascribe violence, suspiciousness, and dangerousness to black clients even though the case studies are the same as the case studies for the white clients.

If cancer relapses after HSCT, another transplant can be performed, infusing the patient with a greater quantity of donor white blood cells.

Another surgical choice of white women is buttock augmentation ( buttock implants and buttock enlarging injections ), which gives the surgery patient buttocks that resembles a black woman's buttocks.

Vivien Thomas was the first African American without a doctorate to perform open heart surgery on a white patient in the United States.

The focus was on the international symbol of medical aid, the red cross, shown at different sizes moving around the screen, often filled with footage such as paramedics and a patient being given cardiac massage, against a stark white background.

The Doctor A friendly ophthalmologist who becomes blind after attempting to treat the first patient who is infected by the " white blindness.

It is destroying the amicable relations between the white and Negro races that have been created through 90 years of patient effort by the good people of both races.

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and patient self-measurement using a home blood pressure monitoring device is being increasingly used to differentiate those with white coat hypertension or experiencing the white coat effect from those with chronic hypertension.

Yellow and blue tops for parasite testing, red top for stool cultures and the white top was provided by the patient with the sample.

Cosmas and Damian miraculously transplant the black leg of the Ethiopian onto the white body of the patient.

Left image: Magnetic resonance imaging | MRI findings ( T1-weighted images ) in a patient with neurosacoidosis showing thickening of infundibulum and both optic nerve s ( white signal marked with yellow arrows ; width 6 mm ).

The patients keep on dancing and acting emotionally throughout the room, and the white hair of the patient from the first scene is revealed to be shaving soap and he shaves his head with a razor.

Leukapheresis may be performed to decrease a very high white blood cell count, to obtain autologous ( i. e., the patient's own ) blood cells for later transplant back into the patient, or to obtain cells for research purposes.

The patient is given a small cup of liquid containing a clear or white radio-opaque fluid similar to barium — clear or white.

Pregnancy testing was conducted in the mid-20th century by injecting urine from a woman into a male toad's lymph sacs, and if spermatozoa appeared in the toad's urine, the patient was deemed to be pregnant.

Nightingale showed a previously male dominated profession the elemental role of nursing in order to lessen the aggravation of patient mortality which resulted from lack of hygiene and nutrition.

The disabilities involved the inability to walk ( in a 12-year-old female patient ) and the inability to run ( in a 12-year-old male patient ).

File: Sperms ( urine )-Spermler ( idrar )-01. png | Sperm cells in the urine sample of a 45 year old male patient who is being followed with the diagnosis of benign prostate hyperplasia.

People who believe this tend to point out that the same idea is found in both diagnoses, that the patient is not a " normal " male or female.

The 2002 Pedro Almodovar film Talk to Her ( Hable con Ella ) has the chief character Benigno tell a story called The Shrinking Lover to Alicia, a long-term comatose patient whom Benigno, a male nurse, is assigned to care for.

The top two images show the interior of the urinary bladder | bladder of a male patient.

A Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Pamela Anderson ( credited as " Pamela Lee ") features Anderson as the patient, though in a comic twist she and all the male doctors conclude that she is now " hot ".

Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, also liked it, writing, " Slowly, through a process of guarded discourse, which director John Sturges has built up by patient, methodical pacing of his almost completely male cast, an eerie light begins to glimmer ... Quite as interesting as the drama, which smacks of being contrived, are the types of masculine creatures paraded in this film.

The first patient, " L ", is a 31 year old male who, before treatment with zolpidem, had been in PVS for three years with a Glasgow Coma Scale of 9.

' Laing ... along with David Cooper, who advocated " bed therapy ", exemplifies what Elaine Showalter described as the fundamental anti-psychiatric constellation: ' a combination of charisma in the male therapist and infantilism in the female patient "'.

In addition, an anonymous 69-year-old male cancer patient used the law and Dr Nitschke's device to die on 22 January 1997.

DEXA assessment of bone mineral density of the femoral neck ( A ) and the lumbar spine ( B ): T scores of-4. 2 and-4. 3 were found at the hip ( A ) and lumbar spine ( B ), respectively in a 53 year-old male patient affected with Fabry disease.

* In 2010, a 39-year-old male patient died from amoebic meningoencephalitis, though the exact amoeba was not specifically identified.

* In August 2012 a male patient was admitted to Ziauddin hospital Karachi, suffering from typical signs of meningitis but later it was Discovered PAM. He died within 3 days.

* In July 2012, a 25-year-old male patient died from naegleria fowleri infection in Ho Chi Minh city, it is confirmed that he was infected while harvesting clams in a pond.

Satisfied by the results of inserting the prototype LMA into cadavers, the prototype LMA was first used in the summer of 1981 in a 40 year-old male patient undergoing an elective inguinal hernia repair.

Following those two patients, in 1936 a male patient from a dental clinic with oral wounds, acneiform signs on the back, scrotal ulcer, eye irritation, evening fever, and abdominal pain was sent to his clinic.

The patient was a 33-year-old mentally retarded male whose outer ears had ossified.

reported a 43-year-old male patient with schizophrenia, as well as other neurological disorders, and severe pinnae calcification.

described an adult male mentally retarded patient who had calcified pinnae and a neoplasm of the palate.

In the 1993 television film docudrama And the Band Played On, a male patient with Kaposi's sarcoma is seen being treated at Sloan Kettering.

Otto Wagner incorporated numerous features specifically related to its function within an asylum: e. g. there are very few sharp edges, and most corners are rounded ; almost no crosses are visible ; the priest's area is potentially entirely separate from the patients '; access to the pulpit is only from the vestry ; emergency exits are built into the side walls in case a patient needed to be speedily removed ; continuously flowing water replaced holy water stoups at the entrance ; there were separate entrances for male and female patients ; confessionals were more open than is customary.