Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that even now people in the U.S. consider Nehru's action in Goa as a diversion from his policy of peace and nonviolence. They do not understand that, after patient urging for 14 years, this "prince of peace" had to use force to cleanse the "Indian temple" that had been defiled by colonialists for centuries...
...since taken a more patient view of neutralism, while an evolving Russia has become less tolerant of the uncommitted nations that receive aid from both camps. Last week in Moscow, the party's theoretical journal Kommunist huffily denounced neutralism in terms that, in their way, were the same as those John Foster Dulles used eight years ago. Said Kommunist: "The leaders of young countries who really desire progress for their peoples cannot occupy intermediate positions between contradictory world social systems. There are only two paths of development-one path leads to capitalism and the other to socialism...
...estimated $33 billion for medical care in 1964. Government agencies, from federal to local, will put up somewhat more than $8 billion; the balance of almost $25 billion will come more directly out of the pockets of ailing individuals and their families. Who gets the money? And is the patient's purse being well treated...
Though doctors collectively get proportionately less of the patient's dollar, Harris reports that they have become the highest paid professionals in the U.S. Before the 1929 crash, those in private practice averaged $5,300 a year; they took a cut to $4,000 during the Depression. They had won back most of this loss by the time of Pearl Harbor, and have climbed steadily ever since then to a current national average of $25,000 or more (far more than such other professionals as dentists and lawyers...
Doctors' fees have doubled since 1940, but this is less than the average price increase for consumer goods and services in general. The boost in doctors' incomes is mainly a result of the fact that they are seeing many more patients. They still work long hours (60 a week is common), and they crowd more patients' visits into each hour. But they are practicing more efficiently. Doctors, says Harris, are generally better educated than they used to be, have whole batteries of new laboratory tests and technicians' services to help them decide on the right diagnosis...