Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lundy won the first set, lost the second, and after trailing 4-0 in the third rallied to take a 5-4 lead only to lose the tie-breaker, 7.5. "He just wasn't patient enough, and he tried to force the attack when he should have waited for better opportunities," said Barnaby...
...postgraduate education. Thus their hours were not a matter for negotiation. Hospital officials and many older doctors who had gone through equally grueling initiations into medicine for much less money insisted that such schedules are necessary to train interns and residents and to guarantee continuity of care for the patient. Said Dr. S. David Pomrinse, director of Mount Sinai Hospital: "We try to train our doctors to watch the patient, not the clock...
...Patients Unaffected. C.I.R. officials claim that it was the league's intransigence that forced them to act. "We got into the strike with tremendous remorse, reluctance and every intention to improve patient care," says Dr. Jay Dobkin, 28, chairman of the doctors' negotiating committee...
...fact, the dispute, which was settled before week's end, had little effect on patient care. Only 46 out of a total of 350 doctors walked out at Metropolitan Hospital; most New York University Hospital interns and residents refused to join the strike. Many of the struck hospitals were able to maintain their normal capacity by pressing senior physicians into service. Even the strikers helped; they frequently slipped off picket lines to care for their patients...
Under the settlement that ended the walkout, the hospitals agreed to form committees of interns, residents and physician members of their medical executive boards to work out separate agreements on work hours and patient care tailored to meet each institution's financial and medical needs. The hospitals also agreed to a C.I.R. demand that no intern or resident be required to work more than one out of every three nights, a practice most of these institutions now follow anyway...