Word: illing
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George Bush called on his opponents to abide by the GOP's eleventh commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican." When polls showed the VP behind Dole, however, he abandoned the commandment and came out swinging. Bob Dole was, George Bush insisted, a "sunshine patriot." Dole spent two years in a military hospital recuperating from wounds received in World...
There is a growing sense that the money is ill spent. Critics charge that doctors, through greed, poor judgment, or fear of malpractice suits, are ordering billions of dollars' worth of needless tests. Patients are willing accomplices, ever ready to put their faith in what appears to be scientific evidence, despite estimates that 20% of all tests performed are unnecessary. Worse, owing to sloppy laboratory work or doctors' mistakes, the results are too often wrong or misinterpreted; thus they may actually harm patients by failing to detect serious diseases or by indicating illness when none exists...
...patients protect themselves? Experts offer the usual consumer advice: grill the doctor about each test, ask if the lab is accredited by the Government or a professional group, refuse procedures that seem unneeded and insist on a retest when in doubt. But few people, when ill, are up to bucking their physicians or shopping around for lab tests. Insurance companies have more power. Last year Blue Cross & Blue Shield created new guidelines for common diagnostic tests, which suggested that the plan might eventually refuse to pay for unneeded ones. The ultimate goal: to prevent useless tests from being ordered...
Sound like a feminist tract? In fact, those observations come from the first draft of a major policy statement on women by American bishops. The 164-page paper, Partners in the Mystery of Redemption, was written by a panel of six bishops chaired by Joseph Imesch of Joliet, Ill., with the assistance of five scholars and two staffers -- all women. The text was released last week for reactions, after being unanimously approved by the U.S. hierarchy's 50-member administrative board...
...that is exactly what has happened. The pro-divestment slate on the Board pushed for an up-or-down vote on the question. Bok's top advisor, Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, was dispatched to lobby Overseers on why such a vote would be ill-advised. Then the University managed to find an even better plan: to divert the question to a joint committee of the Corporation and the Board. Scheduling difficulties should ensure that the committee's reccomendation on the issue will not be made until next fall...