Word: panacea
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...Twain once complained that the "insane," monopolistic American medical system was "an infamous thing, a crime against a free man's right to choose his own assassin." Twain's fulmination is now being echoed by contemporary opponents of the medical establishment. Championing Laetrile, their painless apricot-pit panacea, they are insisting that Americans should be allowed a "freedom of choice" to pick their own cancer therapy...
...battle against cancer has been agonizingly slow. All too often, treatments are extremely expensive (the median cost of a cancer case was calculated in a 1973 study at $19,000), physically painful and, when surgery is required, sometimes permanently damaging. By contrast, Laetrile is portrayed as a simple, inexpensive panacea (about $10 a shot...
...keep people's careers from damaging family life, and how to work out flexible and practical ways of individual child care in an impatient society more and more inclined to turn all problems over to the state. Cardozo, like a number of public figures, sees no panacea in care centers, now being urged by many feminists, because they would become increasingly compulsory and would deprive many children of an affectionate upbringing. An alternative: that women, and men, who take care of their own children be granted Social Security benefits for such work, and that tax benefits be offered...
...short, plumpish man who giggles frequently and peers over his glasses with benign amusement. Meditation attracts troubled Americans, he feels, because it damps their ego and ambition. "People are very relieved when they learn that they are nothing, that they don't exist," he says. Chogyam offers no panacea to his followers. His basic message is: "Go and sit and think and find sanity...
...Panacea. Actually, while they may indeed save some lives, air bags are no panacea for auto safety. They are most effective in frontal crashes taking place at less than 30 m.p.h., such as occur when a car hits a tree or light pole-but most head-on collisions between two cars are much more violent. Air bags are not effective in side swipes, back-end collisions, or multiple jolts (they deflate in a fraction of a second after the initial impact...