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Educational Overkill. The Carnegie report is the most revolutionary look at the education of American physicians since the Carnegie Foundation's Abraham Flexner studied the problem in 1910. Because students could then enter medical school directly from grade school or high school, Flexner urged a sharp increase in scientific training and no student contact with patients until the final two years of study. The ultimate result has been a kind of educational overkill. After pre-med courses in college, medical students often spend unnecessary and repetitive hours in classroom work. Although the system has created an extremely high level...
...Senator Abraham Ribicoff, whose Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization studied the malpractice mess last October, said it was becoming a "national crisis." But few agree on what action should be taken. Most physicians support legislation limiting their liability; many urge the A.M.A. or the Government to underwrite a reinsurance pool for physicians who cannot obtain malpractice insurance from other carriers. Some suggest that the patient carry surgical-accident insurance similar to that now available to airline passengers. Almost all attack the contingent-fee system under which lawyers receive a portion, usually one-third, of any award made to the patient...
Other Harvard professors who declared their support for Kennedy are Abraham J. Chayes '43, professor of Law; Paul M. Doty, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry; Otto Eckstein, professor of Economics; Merle Fainsod, Pforzheimer University Professor; John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics; Samuel P. Huntington, Thomas Professor of Government; Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor; Donald F. Turner, professor of Law; George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology; and Adam Yarmolinsky '43, professor...
...idea of an independent, French-dominated Quebec goes back to 1759, when the British defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham and made Canada a part of the empire. Over the next 200 years, the separatist notion reappeared periodically but never really became a movement...
...know, Will Rogers says that we haven't had a real President since Abraham Lincoln, just Vice-Presidents; well of course, Harding was a guy who'd stand up for his rights and do what he wanted, but he had this food-taster, he wanted to make sure his food taster went along with him wherever he went, until he went off to Alaska without his food-taster and he came back dead.... You must remember: nothing just happens, everything is planned...