Word: judgmentalism
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...editors: The Crimson reported the expected executive order permitting the federal funding of medical research involving the destruction of human embryos (“Stem Cells to get Federal Funding” news story, March 9). The judgment by the author that the previous arrangements imposed “onerous restrictions” on research seemed to dismiss out of hand the moral good which the now lapsed rules sought to promote. The article did not mention a second executive order, which is intended to unfetter science from restriction by any narrow political ideology. These two acts are intimately linked...
...Dartmouth. “I want to ensure that the student who wrote the e-mail understands the enriching role that people of diverse backgrounds will play in his life,” Kim wrote. “But I also don’t want this lapse in judgment to limit his prospects for the future. Dartmouth students are very talented, but we all make mistakes—especially when we are young,” Kim added. Allen Yang ’11, an officer in the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Student Association, applauded the choice...
...dangerous. I've ordered MRI's on hospitalized patients that somehow never got done, physical therapy and medication never delivered, because of "unmet requirements" picked up when codes are scanned. When the white blood count isn't high enough to "justify" the hospitalization for IV antibiotics, the physician whose judgment says "this patient is sick and belongs in the hospital" is told his services as well as the hospitalization will not be paid for. When a doctor is convinced a test or treatment is needed, (and his patient doesn't have the money to pay for it) he has just...
...hospital in front of a computer screen the questions persist. And I still don't see the profit-maximizing, cost-controlling physician with his nationwide computer treating patients any better than the great physicians I've known have. With pen and paper, personal commitment to each patient and judgment born of practical experience. None of which I have found in a machine...
...believe in the report—it’s a great pat on the back,” Bergmann says. “Now how do you implement it without some dollars?”STEPPING UPThough Pecci and other ADF recipients were hesitant to pass judgment on the University’s efforts to go ahead with cost-effective recommendations of the Task Force report, administrators were more willing to give Faust credit.That the University commissioned such a report, Megan says, is indicative of Harvard’s commitment to improving the place of the arts on campus...