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...most heartbreaking youngsters in all of New England. One lad has only half a face, another is strapped into a wheelchair, several others are schizophrenic; most have an unfavorable prognosis. During one meeting, a boy who could not talk until Poulin formed the troop reads haltingly through the Scout oath, then breaks into happy shouts of "Scout! Scout!" when he is done...
...Madness (Harper & Row, 1970), unnecessary incarceration, forced therapy and denial of legal rights are common in the United States. The enormous difference, constitutional rights and traditions aside, is that in the Soviet Union punitive psychiatry appears to be an instrument of policy. With expedient blindness to the Hippocratic oath, Meditsinskaya Gazeta, a leading Russian medical journal, has asserted that physicians "can have no secrets from the state...
Thus it became clear that Medina had lied, first to Henderson, and later, under oath, to Army investigators. His reasons: "First, I felt it would bring disgrace to the military service. Secondly, I knew it would have repercussions involving the United States and other nations. Third, I was concerned about my family and my role as a father. And lastly, I was concerned about myself...
...losing respect. The American Medical Association, traditional foe of any system hinting of collectivism, is losing membership.* Interns and junior residents, who once were to senior staff what braceros are to farmers, are talking back and dreaming of new, more egalitarian forms of practice. The line in the Hippocratic oath that pledges the neophyte to "hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents" is little more than a charming bit of irony for many of tomorrow's doctors...
...process that eventually yielded Rehnquist and Powell last week began shortly after Nixon took the oath of office. Knowing that he would have at least one seat to fill?Warren had announced he was retiring?Nixon asked Attorney General John Mitchell to prepare a list of names consideration. For several weeks early in 1969, Deputy Attorney Richard Kleindienst and his aides researched the records of lawyers, judges, and law professors across the nation. They were guided by three basic criteria. The first was Nixon's preference for prior judicital experience?a requirement he waived last week for Rehnquist and Powell...