Even the rape of the American Indian by the United States government is paralleled to the wife-dominated mixed marriage that produced the ward's most formidable-looking patient, Chief Bromden (the imposing Tim Sampson, the son of Will Sampson, who played the same part in the film).
When wronged, the heroine burned for revenge and applied her patient, formidable intelligence to the task of exacting it.
Revisiting their cases illustrates both the enormous potential benefits of the new law, which seeks to insure some 32 million people, and also how the complexity of the health system will continue to pose a formidable challenge for patients and health care providers in the months and years ahead.
It may become a formidable task in patients with demanding neck anatomy: morbid obesity, a short neck, overhanging submental fat, or the position of the larynx in the sternal notch with virtual intrathoracic placement of the entire length of the trachea.
Time constraints in clinical practice pose a formidable obstacle to introducing patient decision aids into the consultation process.
However, doctors are also facing a formidable barrier of high patient load due to inefficiencies in the health care system.
Imatinib, dasatinib and nilotinib together represent a formidable treatment approach for patients with CML.
Both febrile and afebrile neutropenia present formidable challenges to chemotherapy patients, and their caregivers need to be aware of these challenges to design treatments that adequately address them.
However, the genetic heterogeneity of human populations and the limitation of obtaining preclinical (incubation phase) biological samples from RA patients pose formidable challenges.
After all, panic disorder is a crippling condition associated with reduced quality of life and has formidable economic ramifications for patients, the health care system, and society as a whole.
