Word: affluenceâ
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Dates: during 1979-1979
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...that the only way the U.S. is going to bring its medical costs under control is by emphasizing preventive medicine instead of crisis care. They stress exercise, weight control, cutting out drinking and smoking. Says Dr. Hoyt D. Gardner, president-elect of the A.M.A.: "America medically suffers more from affluence???and consequent self-indulgence?than from poverty." But not many doctors are genuinely optimistic that much will be done...