Word: meds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Med School officials have not yet announced the specific increase they will request. However, Dr. Daniel C. Tosteson, the school's dean, said this week Med School fees will rise to make up for an expected decrease in federal support...
THERE ARE PEOPLE in this world who make a living out of stereotypes and labels. Many of us feel more secure about things when we can hang labels on them--preppie, jock, pre-med and so on. Many people pooh-pooh musicals by dubbing them escapist" and "silly." But Pippin, while providing a pleasant diversion from blizzards and bombastic politicos, stands out from cliched musicals with its own resilience. Much more than a fantasy, Pippin deals with a very central and poignant dilemma in our lives--our existence, and what the hell to do with...
Alan Hamilton, a first-year Med student, said many students have been offered free textbooks, but there has been a low acceptance rate because students are "questioning the ethics" of the gifts...
Goldsweig's letter was in response to another letter in The Times, from Andrew Marks, a second-year student at the Med School, who claimed that many medical students feel the gifts are more a promotion for the drug companies, and a way of influencing physicians to use the drugs of the donating companies...
...Doctors are encouraged to over-prescribe highly advertised drugs," Marks wrote. He said the companies' influencing of physicians starts as early as first year med school, when the drug companies donate the stethoscopes and other aids to the students...