Social service and the art of healingMoffat, Yard and Company, 1909 - 192 páginas |
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angina pectoris ART OF HEALING asked believe blindness to backgrounds causes character charity cial common cure deal diagnosis and treatment diphtheria disease doctor and patient doctor and social dren drug educator effect environment expert eyes fact foreground friends girl give ground habits hand harm heard heart Helen Bosanquet hospital human hygiene ignorance illness knowledge labor less living lizard look Massachusetts General Hospital matter medicine ment mental Methylene Blue mind moral neighbor ness neurasthenia never nurses Old Mortality philanthropy phthisis physi physical physician placebos poor problems profession prognosis psychical relationship relief Religious ecstasies scientific sense sick Sir Frederick Treves social worker souls spiritual stomach trouble sufferer symptom teach teacher tell the truth theory thing tient tion to-day told treat true tuberculosis typhoid veracity worry yellow fever
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Página 14 - What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin, the milk in the pan, the ballad in the street, the news of the boat, the glance of the eye, the form and the gait of the body...
Página 14 - Inasmuch as ye did it not unto the least of these my brethren, ye did it not unto me.
Página 108 - When you are thinking of telling a lie,' said the teacher, 'ask yourself whether it is simply and solely for the patient's benefit that you are going to tell it. If you are sure that you are acting for his good and not for your own profit, you can go ahead with a clear conscience.
Página 4 - I used to see about 30 patients a day, or 3,000 in my four months' service. As I sit in my chair behind the desk, Abraham Cohen, of Salem Street, approaches, and sits down to tell me the tale of his sufferings; the chances are ten to one that I shall look out of my eyes and see, not Abraham Cohen, but a Jew...
Página 14 - One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Página 38 - One who needs all the virtues, 'no more and no less than the railroad man, the farmer, or the shopkeeper. But his first and chief duty to all men is to give, with such ripening sympathy and friendliness as is possible under the circumstances, the benefit of his expert skill, and so fulfill his special function in the community.
Página 70 - chiefly an educator, a nurturer, stimulator, developer and director of human souls, particularly in that group of persons whose character or temperament has brought them into some sort of trouble.
Página 20 - As well might one try to pick up a man's shadow and carry it away as to treat his physical ills by themselves without knowledge of the habits that so often help to make him sick, and the character of which these habits are the fruit.
Página 165 - ... who has time and ability to teach hygiene and to see that it is carried out (for instance, in tuberculosis), to study the home conditions and report upon their part in causing or prolonging disease, and to help modify those conditions, financial, mental, moral, which stand between the patient and recovery. This "someone...