Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-01-03 20:08:55 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA40314909 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Dr. Manheimer describes the plights of twelve very different patients–from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax prisoners at Riker’s Island, to illegal immigrants, and zing.Wall Street tycoons. Kefalopoulou, Z.; Paschali, A.; Markaki, E.; Vassilakos, P.; Ellul, J.; Constantoyannis, C. A double-blind study on a patient with tardive dyskinesia treated with pallidal deep brain stimulation. Acta Neurol. Scand. 2009, 119, 269–273. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef]

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Kupsch, A.; Klaffke, S.; Meissner, W.; Arnold, G.; Schneider, G.H.; Maier-Hauff, K.; Trottenberg, T. The effects of frequency in pallidal deep brain stimulation for primary dystonia. J. Neurol. 2003, 250, 1201–1205. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] Kiriakakis, V.; Bhatia, K.P.; Quinn, N.P.; Marsden, C.D. The natural history of tardive dystonia. A long-term follow-up study of 107 cases. Brain 1998, 121, 2053–2066. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef][ Green Version] Manheimer was not only the medical director of the country’s oldest public hospital for over 13 years, but he was also a patient. As the book unfolds, the narrator is diagnosed with cancer, and he is forced to wrestle with the end of his own life even as he struggles to save the lives of others. When embarking upon this book, I had seen a BBC2 programme about nursing in Mexico 'The Toughest Place to be a ... Nurse'And I am looking at it from the point of view of wanting to live in the US myself but being restricted to six months. If I stay longer and get caught (and last year there was an issue with Immigration who said I had stayed the entire six months when I had left months before, easily cleared up, but worrying nonetheless) then I get banned for ten years. I'm self-supporting, don't need housing or benefits and I don't want to work. So for the US it's money in, not money out. You'd think I would be a desirable immigrant, but no.... In the book, Manheimer said, "I wanted to tell the story of the social and political things festering in this country, but I wanted to tell the patients' stories that could narrate it ... So I went through the notebooks and chose 12 patients that illustrated 12 important themes."