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When pressed, Tang says he believes journalistic standards have fallen, although he could simply be afflicted by a form of selective myopia that seems restricted to the wealthy and powerful, a condition that grows worse when a sufferer's friends and associates are written about regularly.
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A patron complained that the book's depiction of cutting—the cover shows a horribly scarred forearm—might trigger a sufferer's relapse.
Darkness Too Visible Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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The origins of a medical marketplace lie in the sufferer's attempt to find an explanation for his or her disorder and a means to restore health.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Its antisocial aspects can have an extremely negative effect on a sufferer's daily life, personal relationships, and performance at work.
Robert Tornambe, M.D.: Under the Knife or on the Couch? When Narcissism and Plastic Surgery Collide M.D. Robert Tornambe 2010
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Its antisocial aspects can have an extremely negative effect on a sufferer's daily life, personal relationships, and performance at work.
Robert Tornambe, M.D.: Under The Knife Or On The Couch? When Narcissism And Plastic Surgery Collide M.D. Robert Tornambe 2010
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Ritualized incantations, offerings, prayers, and confessions were common, as were such techniques as curing a wound with a curandero's breath, the painting of signs or figures (usually snakes) on the sufferer's back, head, or abdomen, or the sucking-out of various objects from different parts of the patient's body.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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The behaviourists (whom you say didn't exist) at the time were treating the disorder by physical reward/punishment and physically limiting the sufferer's ability to act out his desires.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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Was the asthma sufferer's death a coincidence, caused by the stress of being caught by security, or something even more sinister than that?
Alleged Shoplifter Dies After Encounter With Walmart Security - The Consumerist 2010
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En route to this honor were the standard ecclesial steps: the examination of Newman's life and writings; a declaration that he had lived a life of extraordinary virtue; and official approval by doctors and theologians of a miraculous cure after prayers that Newman would intercede with God on the sufferer's behalf.
Beyond the Beatification of Cardinal Newman C. John McCloskey III 2010
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Was the asthma sufferer's death a coincidence, caused by the stress of being caught by security, or something even more sinister than that?
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