Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that trotted to their dooms. Appropriately enough, Garden was about mercy killing of a sort. Dr. Cook has kept God's bucolic little acre of Greenfield Center, Vt., weeded by systematically poisoning mentally retarded children and town skinflints who fight bills for new schools. Burl Ives as the doctor made a sly sweet monster, but he wasn't really scary. What was really scary about the Ira Levin melodrama was that someone produced...
...major difficulty with Part B is that physicians have a choice as to how they will collect. They may insist, as the American Medical Association and other doctors' organizations recommend, on billing the patient directly for whatever charge they judge proper. The patient must then pay the bill, get it receipted, and send it to a contractor (it may be Blue Shield or an insurance company), which is acting as the Government's middleman for the area. When the contractor is satisfied that the claim is legitimate, it refunds the patient 80% of what is locally considered...
...Syracuse doctor has accused college psychiatrists of dispersing information about student-patients "so widely as to make any reference to 'confidentiality' absurd...
...frequently from Dr. Farnsworth's books, Dr. Szasz concludes that the relationship between student and school psychiatrist is "a status relationship in which the psychiatrist is the superior and the student the inferior." He accuses Dr. Farnsworth of using "the welfare of others" as an excuse for violating the doctor-patient confidence. He claims that Dr. Farnsworth never defines his term "welfare...
...Each doctor emphasized that the Health Center takes no part in the Administration's enforcement, and that any consultation with UHS doctors is confidential...