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• One reason why a doctor may not be a good pa
tient when he gets sick is that he may be disturbed
by the dilemma posed by the biblical admonition,
“Physician, heal thyself” (Luke, IV, 23) and the
caustic comment of Sir William Osler (1849-1919):
“A physician who treats himself has a fool for a
patient ”
Os three doctors who were asked, in "Medical
Tribune" if physicians make poor patients, one said
he felt doctors do indeed make poor patients. A
second said that the particular characteristics of
their profession prevent them from readily accept
ing a role forced on them by sickness. A third
• If mental retardation mental illness ?
Essentially, the problems presented
by mental retardation are different
from those of mental illness. In men
tal retardation, there is a deficiency
in intellectual function, believed to
be due to arrested or incomplete
development of the brain during the
prenatal or early childhood period.
Mental illness generally involves per
sonality problems and behavioral
disorders related to the emotions.
While the two conditions occur inde
pendently, it is possible for them to
co-exist in the same person. The
mentally retarded are particularly
vulnerable to personality difficulties,
according to a report from the
‘ President's Committee on Mental
Retardation,” in the "Statistical
Bulletin” of the Metropolitan Use
Insurance Company, because of a
lower level of intellectual function
and because of frustrating emotional
experiences.
There is a wide variation In the
degree of mental retardation, rang-
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thought that medical people who become sick know 1
the foolishness of taking a negative attitude toward 1
their condition.
Dr. Thomas L. Morrison, Salem, Ore., said doctors ]
too often don’t practice what they preach. They tell <
patients to seek relaxation and time off from the
stress of work, but they don't take this advice them
selves.
Dr. Harry J. Cowherd, Frankfort, Ky., said in
many cases the doctors quite often tend to diagnose
their own ills, ignore their own advice in urging pa
tients to have an annual physical examination, ra
tionalising that they don’t have the time. When they
Ing from a disability so extreme as
to require lifetime custodial care to
individuals with a retardation so
slight that they can function almost
on a par with their age group.
In a scale of the prevalence of
mental retardation in the U.S., an
estimated 89,000 individuals (or
1.5% of all retarded persons) are in
the "profound" category, and 207,000
(3.5%) are considered severely re
tarded. These groups will always
need complete care and supervision.
Considered as trainable and able
to achieve semi-productivity in a
sheltered setting are the 354,000
persons (6%) who are described as
"moderately" mentally retarded. By
far the largest group are the 5,300,-
000 individuals (88%) in the "mild
ly” retarded class. Though they may
need guidance and help when under
unusual social or economic stress,
these are educable and can achieve
social and vocational skills suffi
cient for self-support.
4® IM, King Features Syndicate lac.)
• How do you "color” you ?
You may be giving yourself away
when you splash orange on your
living room walls or Coat your kitch
en in violet Color preference, per
haps, can be a clue to your person
ality.
Everyone, according to noted color
expert Faber Birren, has inborn col
or likes and dislikes . . . and reac
tions to color relate in general to
personality characteristics. In a ser
ies of folders and pamphlets issued
by the West Virginia Pulp and Pa
per Company and based on Birren's
book, “Color in Your World” (Col
lier), the following six major colors
were linked with personality traits.
A preference for “cool-as-ice,
calm, precise” blue indicates a con
servative person, who is loyal (true
blue), reflective (blue funk?), self
controlled and conscientious.
"Let’s-conform-to-the-norm” green
seems to be the favorite of a na
ture lover, who is well-balanced,
conventional, faithful (no cause for
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become ill, they tend to bluster about their sickness
to cover embarrassment.
Dr. J. C. Pickett, Newark, Ohio, said that "poor
patient” doctors and nurses are usually those who
cannot accept the reversal of the doctor-patient role.
However, Dr. Pickett feels a doctor who consults
a fellow physician is seriously enough concerned to
follow the advice and therapy he gets.
"Doctors fret and fuss and are often teased about
accidents or illness because it is just not supposed to
happen to them,” said Dr. Pickett "I*t’s face it—-
we are embarrassed to be sick; we don’t like to be
sick. But there are few patients who like it either."
the green-eyed monster here) and
ambitious (striving for the green
stuff?).
If some one "flips over sprightly,
go-likely” orange, he is said to bo
friendly, extroverted, sympathetic,
fickle, and light-hearted.
One whose "blood quickens’ ’ at the
sight of "hard-to-tame, soul-aflame”
red Is supposed to be optimistic, dra
matic, imaginative, temperamental
and romantic.
The individual who "lights up”
over "transcedental, highly mental”
yellow is reported to be visionary,
aloof (afraid to mix with the
crowd?), intellectual and passive—
though a bit avant-garde, too.
Far from being like the slink
ing flower of the same color, anyone
who goes "lyrical" over the "arty,
proud, above-the-crowd” shade of
violet is said to be aristocratic (even
if he is not bom to purple), re*
splendent, artistic, moody ("Deep
Purple”?) and elusive.