Word: needlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Properly administered, compulsory health insurance would give little inconvenience to patients or doctors. The only people who might be ruffled are those monetary cranks able to calculate the cost of relieving needless suffering and conclude "It's not worth the price...
Even opponents of AMA policy have unfortunately tolerated the doctors economic lobbying as part of the American tradition, although the influence of the lobbying rests on professional claims to special knowledge about health problems. It is precisely this familiarity with needless suffering and illness that should make the members of the AMA try to keep America's health service ahead of public demand rather than behind it. The American Medical Association should indeed criticize the Eisenhower health proposals--not because they re the "entering wedge of socialized medicine" (as the AMA called them last year) but because they are inadequate...
...Martian lost no time popping a political question. He wanted to know, says Allingham ("Needless to say I could not understand his words, but his gestures were clear enough"), whether the Earth people would start another war. Allingham says he was only able to shrug hopefully in reply. After indicating that he had visited both Venus and the Moon says Allingham, the Martian also asked if Earthmen would soon reach the Moon. When Allingham nodded, the Martian's broad brow clouded up. "And who can blame them?" asks the author. "We have not yet proved ourselves fit to rule...
...Needless to say, the "stoolie" role is a disgusting one, and Tony Curtis was a perfect choice. George Nader plays the policemean and also does a good job. In fact, the whole cast, including the countless unwitting Bostonians, does the best it can; its only guilt is that of association with a second-rate melodrama...
...college or university. These courses are given, for the most part, by professors from the faculties of the University of Paris, the Ecole do Louvre, and the Comedie Francaise. However, the Harvard student, barring objections from Cambridge, is free to specialize as he wishes. So much for the needless imposition of Sweet Briar restraints, "a large academic handicap" which inflicts a foolish financial burden...