Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprised and concerned at your shallow, poorly researched and uninformed article on U.S. medicine. You have alternately, almost schizophrenically, represented the U.S. doctor as dedicated, ingenious, overworked and harassed, while at the same time suggesting that he is grasping, incompetent and unconcerned with his patients' needs. Physicians' fees have risen, but not out of proportion with the cost of living. Their disproportionate increase in income in recent years is due in large part to a massive increase in their patient load. This is due to rising population, Medicare, Medicaid, and, most importantly, to increasing patient respect and confidence...
...This laissez-faire jungle where the only right the patient has is that of paying the wildly nonstandard fee and where the doctor can literally bury his mistakes and be free to make new ones, just as fatally irreversible as the old ones, will end only when people shed their awe of that imposing facade the A.M.A. has so skillfully built and treat the practitioners of that not so arcane science like the technician every professional...
...visualize medication of the future as being a combined effort by some well-selected doctors, the IBM corporation and some companies now working in the medical electronics field. The result would be a system whereby a patient is analyzed by a computer. The diagnosis could be verified by a doctor, and certainly the progress of the treatment would be supervised by him. Such an analysis would reveal a number of treatable malfunctions, many of which are not even tested for in a general checkup. Doctors would upgrade programs as required...
...were crippled and died from the inexorable accumulation of poisons in dozens of industries. Almost singlehanded, Dr. Alice drew state and federal attention to the horrors, aroused public indignation and campaigned across the nation until-finally-a body of laws was passed to protect workers. Last week the good doctor, now grown fragile with age, observed her 100th birthday amid family and friends at her home in Hadlyme, Conn. The U.S., she believes, is a much better country now than when she began her crusade. "It has shed many injustices, much blindness, ignorance, arrogance, even ruthlessness." If that is true...
...body," Louis-Ferdinand Céline once wrote, "is always something that's true; that is why it's nearly always sad and repulsive to look at." Céline had ample opportunity to contemplate the human body in full adversity, for he was a doctor and he spent much of his adult life in a run-down Parisian suburb as one of those slum saints who cure what is curable in the poor for little or no pay. Partly as a result, he viewed the body of modern society with unparalleled revulsion and no hope. The only...