Word: doctor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...AGREE for the most part with the recommendations of the majority. We cannot, however, presume to couch the events of this unfortunate incident in the context of any "old boy network," nor can we assume any particular motives on the parts of the doctors who wrote the recommendations. We prefer not to delve into the mystic realms of psychoanalysis, but rather to place blame for this outrage squarely on the institutions involved. It is debatable whether it is the duty of a doctor, called upon by a friend to offer a written evaluation of his medical abilities, to mention...
Hussain, Sherry, and a third doctor who is not affiliated with Brigham and Women's were convicted of rape in a highly publicized trial last June. Released pending appeal of his case. Hussain used references from the four BWH physicians to get a job at Buffalo Children's Hospital...
...omission of Dr. Arif Hussain's criminal background raises questions beyond those of medical ethics. By showing themselves more willing to bail out a friend than to obey the moral rules of their profession, the doctors called into question the legitimate uses of influence and revealed the kind of mentality which can be bred in a heavily male environment. Whether the recommending doctors felt that the nurse who was raped had "asked for it," whether they thought their colleague had "learned his lesson," whether they merely forgot to mention the conviction, or whether--as one doctor said last week--they...
...significance of the psychogenic factor in the daily life of men, the frequency of malingering, and the nonexistence of chance as a few years' practice of psychoanalysis on the strict principle of leasing by the hour." Green tells of one patient so obsessed with his bill that the doctor did not get paid for eight months...
...peeves make his good qualities even more believable. Technically, he also serves as a vital navigational point in the author's explorations. She discusses a number of analytic approaches and comes to the sensible conclusion that the clinical skills needed to get a patient to talk and the doctor to listen are as important as variations on theory. In the final analysis, talking and listening began the revolution that-like heliocentricism and evolution-placed man a lot lower than the angels...