Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there upside down as the cabin began to fill with smoke," recalled Cliff Marshall, of Ostrander, Ohio. "God opened a hole, and I pushed a little girl out." Sister Viannea, a Felician nun, said the crash "was like a cyclone. Everything was flying all over the plane. I could feel people walking over me to get out. Finally, three men dragged...
...Someone introduced them," he recalls, "but it wasn't me. I was off cooking for 60 guests, but I got the credit . . . or the blame, whatever your perspective. Donna's a nice girl, personable and fun, but I feel sorry for her, and saddened and aggravated by the way she chose to exploit the situation. She figured her life was ruined, and she damn well wanted to get something out of it all. That's O.K., as long as it didn't involve...
...know a single thoughtful and well-informed person," George Bernard Shaw once said, "who does not feel that the tragedy of illness at present is that it delivers you helplessly into the hands of a profession which you deeply mistrust...
...impact of possible litigation is felt long before a patient sets foot in the doctor's office. Some physicians, like Linda Bolton, a pediatrician in Birmingham, Mich., try to screen out potential problems. "It really dictates what happens at the office. If I feel I have people who are litigious, I prefer not to take them as patients." In the past, she has fixed her rates only after she has been notified how much she will have to pay for malpractice insurance...
...costs of practice have driven out hordes of doctors altogether. According to a 1987 survey by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1 out of 8 U.S. obstetricians has left the field because of the malpractice threat. Those who manage to stay in business may feel forced to practice a kind of medicine that assumes every patient is a prospective litigant. Such defensive tactics are antithetical to compassionate care: the doctor ends up being afraid of someone he or she wants to help, cautious about trying attractive new treatments and emotionally aloof from someone in need of emotional support...