Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the cast, including Douglas, have parts that offer little depth of characterization. Douglas breezes through his role as an angry Vietnam vet-turned-freelance cameraman. The utitility company executives are all shown as thoroughly evil, motivated only by greed, while Godell's fellow technicians at the plant simply take orders--until well after the critical moment...
...Rocker Billy Joel the dreary duty calls expected of a visiting VIP in Cuba. Between sets by a star-studded U.S. rock, pop and jazz caravan visiting Havana for the first concert of its kind in 20 years, fellow Performers Kris Kristofferson and Wife Rita Coolidge duly toured socialist showplaces, including a pioneer school. Billy, by contrast, crammed a peaked cap over his swirl of black curls, clamped a cigar in his teeth and settled down on a beach to rap with enthralled young Cubans, who, from tuning in to Miami rock stations, already knew the words to such Joel...
...Alcohol Rehabilitation Service of the Long Beach I Naval Regional Medical Center. Carter, who has admitted guzzling two dozen beers a day, will undergo six weeks of group therapy and psychodrama in order to learn how to deal with his drinking problem. Betty Ford and Billy's fellow Georgian Herman Talmadge completed the same kind of treatment...
...talk of abandoning professional courtesy. After Wolfson and Bass denounced the no-fee practice as a relic in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, it received a spate of critical letters. Gastroenterologist William Haubrich of La Jolla, Calif., protested that proffering a bill to a fellow doctor smacks of commercialism and erodes the strong feelings of fraternalism in the medical community. Oklahoma City Internist Ernest Warner Jr. added: "One of the greatest honors one can receive is to be asked by a fellow physician to care for his or her family...
...trend, though, is toward charging. Psychiatrists long ago decided to bill all patients, including fellow doctors. Hospitals too have largely given up the practice of free care, as have many surgeons, especially since most doctors have health insurance to cover the bills. Thus, as Boston Pediatric Radiologist John Leonidas points out, "with all these third-party payers, professional courtesy is ultimately going to be obsolete anyway...