Word: commonality
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Given all of the tightropes proctors are expected to walk-personally, socially and academically-their training could prove critical. And while proctors agree that common sense and enthusiasm are the most important elements in being a good proctor, they generally give high marks to the "inundation" they receive the week prior to first-year registration...
...article in Wednesday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. In a study of 198 internal medicine residents and 255 family practice residents in their first, second and third years, researchers found that physicians could detect, on average, just 20 percent of the 12 most common cardiac problems by using their stethoscopes. And the situation is likely to get worse. Currently, fewer than one-third of all internal medicine programs nationwide offer any official instruction in using the stethoscope. Family practice and internal medicine certification boards long ago abandoned stethoscope proficiency as a requirement for recertification...
BEFORE THE FALL Half of nursing-home residents take a spill each year. But common-sense safety measures such as lowering bedside access and using wheelchair seat belts can help cut harmful falls...
During my years as a police chief, I found that police misconduct often had its roots in subtle indications by supervisors to officers that the sort of "extralegal" tactics common to quality-of-life policing were acceptable. Cops in minority neighborhoods would detain, question and push around people on the street without reason. If a young man asserted his legal right to leave, cops "kicked ass." Inevitably a number of officers felt justified in using illegal and at times fatal force. It was constantly necessary to emphasize to the officers that we were peace officers, servants of the community...
Many of the current brutality cases show officers in an almost maniacal rage. The message of politicians to police that they are soldiers in a war may be driving these angry and violent expressions of contempt. It is common in war to dehumanize the enemy. And all wars produce atrocities...