Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arnold-Relman is the man who decides what will appear in the New England Journal of Medicine. The man who writes the editorials that continually have him embroiled in controversy. The man who called the ethical foundation of medicine outdated, who has challenged doctor's conflicts of interest, who has questioned whether capitalism should rule medicine...
...especially psychiatry, the Modern Religion. The festivities open in the private mental health clinic of Dr. Prentice (Alexander Pearson), who, as the lights go up, is interviewing an ingenue, Geraldine Barclay (Melissa Franklin), for a secretarial post. Under the pretext of determining her suitability for the job, the good doctor has Miss Barclay undress on a couch hidden behind a conveniently placed curtain. Enter Mrs. Prentice (Alexandra Phillips) at this most unpropitious time. While Dr. Prentice silently implores Miss Barclay to remain still behind the curtain, the couple launch into an epic shouting match, centered mostly on each other...
...between Philip Roth and Donald Barthelme in the periodic table of American prose stylists. He secures this position with a first novel that assembles a group of men to emulate a women's consciousness-raising session. In a Berkeley, Calif, living room, a basketball pro, an accountant, a doctor, a lawyer, a real estate agent, a college teacher and a psychotherapist ventilate their feelings and talk about their appetites...
Calling the new minimum-age requirement "arbitrary," Dr. Sholem Postel, deputy director of UAS, said yesterday that he would like "the transaction to occur strictly between the doctor and the patient...
...reports, studies and legislative acts. Through the years he has compiled a list of cause and enemies which seems almost endless. And from this unwieldly mass of issues and debates come the material for his speeches. In his speech at the Beth Israel Hospital, for example. Nader used "the doctor's role in medicine" as an umbrella topic to take pot shots at the automotive industry, the highway industry, the drug companies, nuclear power and the makers of Wonder Bread. He sprays out facts and accusations like buckshot, aiming at everything and being reasonably sure he will hit something...