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Surgeons and other specialists in frequent contact with suffering or dying patients tend to have very high suicide rates; obstetricians, radiologists and pediatricians have lower ones. The most suicidal, perhaps, are psychiatrists. Explains Psychiatrist Jerome Motto of the University of California in San Francisco: "What makes a person a good psychiatrist can be a double-edged sword. A high degree of sensitivity is necessary, but psychiatrists without psychological toughness suffer when exposed to a patient's miseries...
...click, but a long, slow, indrawn vision of the world, burning the image lovingly into an almost personal memory. The first society of photography in Paris was called La Société Héliographique because the light of the sun collaborated in the exposure of film. Its motto says all that can be said for photography: "Nothing is so beautiful as the truth; but one must choose...
Lech Walesa has given new life to the motto "Workers of the world, unite...
...inflation pushes people into higher tax brackets, federal, state and local bureaucracies collect larger revenues without having to put tax increases to a vote. Every 1% increase in inflation results in a 1.5% growth in personal income tax revenues. Consumers and politicians waging war on inflation might adopt a motto of the late great comic strip character Pogo: "We have met the enemy...
...heck out of a lot of people, but my good judgement and size hold me back. Instead I use my imagination and let the sailor do the scrapping." Of course, Popeye never used force unjustifiably. "Treat ever' body right and if they steps on ya, sock 'em!" was his motto. The comic strip did not glorify but rather burlesqued violence, turning it into slapstick. He became and remains an incongrous folk hero--a cross between one of the Stooges and Superman...