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