Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Americans distrust the cavalierism of modern-day health care and fear invasive medical intervention to the bitter end, or a lingering, undignified death while hooked up to life-prolonging technologies. A Gallup Poll conducted last April found that 75 percent of Americans believe that doctors should be allowed to end...
No matter what other goals it may achieve, the medical profession has always maintained as its ultimate mission the relief of human suffering. Though the greatest of medical innovators have made their most important contributions for any combination of personal and professional reasons, the background against which their motivations play...
Perhaps the single most striking difference between the doctors of the Hippocratic school and all others was their injunction that the causes of disease should no longer be attributed to the influence of supernatural forces. Henceforth, the origins of illness were to be sought in observable natural factors that influence...
Until now, physicians have been able to offer only palliative care to patients with macular degeneration: more powerful eyeglasses; visual aids, such as machines that enlarge print; and, for a minority of cases--those that involve the invasive growth of blood vessels--laser therapy that sometimes slows down the disease...
It was only the single-minded and often heroic intervention of the Dutch branch of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) that prevented Sudan's epidemic of kala-azar from turning into a modern-day version of the black death, which ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages. MSF, founded by...