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...young bisexual designer, Bob (Murray Head), finds himself the fulcrum of a sexual teeterboard. On one side sits his lover, a Jewish doctor named Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch). At the opposite end is his mistress, the haggard divorcee Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson...
Enormous Cost. To some degree, the increase in malpractice suits is a byproduct of medical progress. "The success of modern medicine has led many people to expect the perfect result all the time," says A.M.A. General Counsel Bernard Hirsh. "When they don't get the perfect result, they consider it negligence." Others blame the increase on a health care system that takes the patient out of the hands of a family doctor and places him in those of a specialized stranger. They point out that while people rarely sue physicians they know and trust, they often sue specialists...
STEVEN L. HIRSH Philadelphia...
...Dave Hirsh, late-thirtyish mock hero of Running, is that stock figure of much modern fiction, the self-pitying sore head who believes that the world owes him a loving. Dave is a World War II veteran and the author of two minor novels. He has been AWOL from his typewriter for seven years, and Choctaw rather than English would appear to be his first language. Sample: "A person could actually kill themselves that way." On an alcoholic whim, Dave returns in 1947 to Parkman. Ill., the hick home town he had deserted 19 years earlier in flight from...
...Mermaid Tavern setting where the young toughs drink, brawl and frolic with the "pigs" who work at the brassiere factory. The arbiter of this elegant bunch is 'Bama Dillert, a gambler without a river boat. 'Bama is a cool autocrat of the poker table, and Dave Hirsh shortly becomes his equally cool partner. 'Bama believes that luck is a function of the brain and that man will eventually master it ("maybe thats the next stage of life or evolution us human beins will evolve up to or something like that...