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...crime. He attributes rising crime rates to "the lack of community"--broken families, a lack of accepted values and behavior and other traditional communal ties. He believes there is a lapse of a generation or two between increased affluence and the rise of community and suggests that trying to cure crime through social programs ignores the need for immediate relief...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: Wilson's New Freedom | 11/23/1976 | See Source »

...very least, the new gonococci will require several visits to the doctor, as opposed to the old, cheap, one-shot treatment. Says Dr. Ronald St. John of the CDC's venereal disease division: "If this new strain becomes widespread, then a lot of money will be needed to cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Penicillin Eaters | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...only would this cure the recession, but with his connections we would have avoided those disastrous droughts, earthquakes, devil's-grass and rainy weekends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Nov. 8, 1976 | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

Aspirin or Ice Bag. With Swiftian hyperbole, Berman modestly proposes that "over 80% of the patients chancing the physician's skills have little more wrong with them than what a considerate spouse, a kindly bartender or a hefty raise in salary couldn't cure." For most of the rest, he would prescribe nothing more exotic than milk of magnesia, aspirin, an ice bag or Preparation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. Berman's Spleen | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...Nathan Kline, who is twitted along with other psychiatrists for pushing pills, perhaps provided the most perceptive analysis: while Berman's book is "outrageously provocative" and sometimes "pure Paul Bunyan," there is behind the barrage a serious intent-not to destroy U.S. medicine but to cure its flaws. In other words, Berman is repeating that most ancient admonition: physician, heal thyself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. Berman's Spleen | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

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