Word: caduceus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is none of M*A*S*Hs can-the-caduceus flippancy about Rogers-as-businessman. His investment philosophy, say his clients, is strictly "traditionalist." So is Rogers. Born William Wayne McMillan Rogers III, the son of a wealthy lawyer in Birmingham, Ala., Rogers in his youth was suitably Southern-comfortable: "I drank beer, chased girls and drove fast cars." Sent to a boarding school for "Southern incorrigibles" in Bell Buckle, Tenn., Rogers finally buckled down and eventually graduated from Princeton with honors...
...collect? Here, clearly, the answers involve the most subjective value judgments. With rare exceptions, conscience and cash-consciousness are mixed in widely varying proportions. The one-snake staff of Aesculapius the healer-the official emblem of the American Medical Association-is obviously in conflict with the two-serpent caduceus of Mercury, the god of commerce. Although medical ethics has long been the subject of resounding rhetoric, it has not been effectively taught in medical schools. William Curran, Harvard Professor of Legal Medicine, says: "For years, medical ethics was more etiquette than ethics. Students were taught how doctors shouldn...