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The English Patient

Director/Writer: Anthony Minghella Director of Photography: John Seale Editor: Walter Murch Music: Gabriel Yared Production Designer: Stuart Craig Producer: Saul Zaentz…

Brewer's: Patient

(The). Albert IV., Duke of Austria. (1377-1404.) (See Helena.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Patient GriselPatience cry the Lepers A B C D E F G H…

informed consent

(Encyclopedia) informed consent, in medicine, a patient's written consent to a surgical or medical procedure or other course of treatment, given after the physician has told the patient all of the…

Brewer's: Patient Grisel

Grisildes, Grisild, Grisilde, or Grisildis, according to Chaucer, was the wife of Wautier, Marquis of Saluces (Clerkes Tale ). According to Boccaccio, Griselda, a poor country lass, became…

medicine man

(Encyclopedia) medicine man, among Native Americans and other traditional peoples as far back as Paleolithic times, a person believed to possess supernatural healing powers. Like the shaman the…

gene therapy

(Encyclopedia) gene therapy, the use of genes and the techniques of genetic engineering in the treatment of a genetic disorder or chronic disease. There are many techniques of gene therapy, all of…

Broken English

Director:Gregor NicholasWriters: Gregor Nicholas, Johanna Pigott and Jim SalterDirector of Photography:John ToonEditor:David CoulsonMusic:Murray Grindlay and Murray McNabbProduction Designer:…

English Only?

The Question: My friend and I are having a debate. He says that the United States does not have an official language. I thought English was our official language. Who's right…

oxygen tent

(Encyclopedia) oxygen tent, device used to maintain a patient in an oxygen-rich environment. The oxygen tent is composed of a clear plastic sheet suspended over the bed and tucked beneath the…

The Patient Takes His Bed

The Patient Takes His BedDecubitus Sequitur TandemMeditationJohn Donne WE attribute but one privilege and advantage to man's body above other moving creatures, that he is not, as others,…