Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tavistock Square. A blue-uniformed B.M.A. porter guarded the doors to the room where clerks (sworn to secrecy) counted the answers. The ballots were replies to a question sent to 55,842 B.M.A. members: Would Britain's doctors be willing to serve under the new National Health Service Act backed by Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan...
...doctors have many objections to the new act. Basically, they fear complete state control of medicine. And the doctors do not trust Bevan. In medical terms, he is a "corrected sinistral": left-handed as a child, he developed a stammer when elders forced him to be righthanded. He cured the stammer, relapses only when he is excited; but the doctors think that his politics move steadily leftward...
...spite of the no-confidence vote, Bevan was still confident that he had a good chance of corralling enough doctors to make the scheme work on schedule. He holds a powerful pounds & pence goad: the panel system ends July 5 and is superseded by the new act. Doctors will miss its steady income. They will still be free to practice privately, but they will have trouble finding many Britons willing to pay extra...
...soon? Authors Wolfe and Rosenthal, sure that he did, report hypnotic effects that make Svengali* look like a tyro. They claim that hypnotism has cured numerous cases of psychoneurosis, made childbirth painless and alcoholics sober. They reassure prospective patients by saying that no one can be forced to act against his moral principles while in a trance (e.g., a girl cannot be hypnotically seduced if she does not want to be; if she does, the authors add gravely, "hypnosis is an unnecessarily involved and roundabout route...
...editor responsible for everything his paper prints? Certainly. Editors often act, however, as if this responsibility did not extend to syndicated columnists. Unlike the rest of the staff, the absentee pundit rarely has to prove or go bail for his facts, or gossip, no matter how irresponsible or erroneous...