Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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People with chronic pain often wind up on a medical merry-go-round: psychiatrists tell them that their problem appears to be physical; internists and surgeons tell them they ought to have their head examined. Western doctors, trained to cure acute illness, are often frustrated by patients with vague pain that refuses to go away. So are the families, who quickly tire of hearing complaints. Dejected, guilt-ridden and increasingly isolated, many pain patients eventually seek care outside standard medicine: herbal treatments, chiropractic, faith healing and, too often, quackery. Says Fields of U.C.S.F.: "They fall through the cracks...
...know if one patient in 10,000 will benefit," says Pharmacologist William Beaver, of Georgetown University, "but we ought to find...
...Harvard ought to pay junior faculty moving expenses, says another assistant professor "the only university I know of that doesn't is Harvard." Mortgages ought to be made available to junior faculty, according to one assistant professor, who was told by the Harvard Credit Union that "we only start giving out loans for people who get such-and-such a salary from Harvard, which I happened to know that year was the minimum salary for a full professor...
...happen to have strength in all those areas and therefore we ought to at least poke around to see if there is something we can do to try and provide a place for people who are interested in these fields. And I don't think there is anything like a place like Harvard to do it," Bok explains...
...Linguists ought to be interested, and historians as well," he says...