Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convention was an innocuous platform amendment promising to loosen Hatch Act restrictions against political activities by Government employees; a similar proposal was passed by the Democratic Congress but vetoed by President Ford. The lack of controversy was less a result of rigid control by the Carter forces than of patient conciliatory efforts by Democratic Chairman Robert Strauss over the past three years and of Carter's own persuasiveness last week. In earnest appearances before restive groups of women, blacks and Latinos, Carter promised each that they would be visibly represented at high levels in his campaign...
...director periodically reviews the log of calls-and the responses to them -to keep the staff on its toes. He may also take other action; even his fellow doctors are not spared Rabkin's criticism. After he discovered that a patient had been left unattended in a corridor, he rebuked the physician responsible (without naming him) in his weekly "Dear Doctor" memo to the staff. Explains Rabkin: "A patient's rights brochure is not worth the paper it is printed on if it does not reflect an institutional commitment." At Beth Israel, whose bright new wing is attracting...
...college, four weeks' annual vacation and comprehensive retraining programs if they want to switch careers. On the average, Swedish workers take 22 days per year of sick leave (for which they get 90% of their regular salary) and pay $3.40 at most for each visit to an out-patient clinic. On retirement at age 65, an industrial laborer earning $11,250 annually is entitled to a pension of $8,726. In pursuit of new ways to ease the Angst of life, a local politician actually proposed that the government provide free sex partners for the lonely...
...parents forbid the abortion? Last week, by a vote of 6 to 3 on the first question and 5 to 4 on the second, the court ruled that neither husband nor parent may have "an absolute, and possibly arbitrary, veto over the decision of the physician and his patient." The court did indicate, however, that it might take a different view of a state law requiring some form of parental involvement short of a blanket veto...
With only a few notable exceptions, such as some senior officials of the American Medical Association, almost everyone agrees that modern medicine is as sick as the patients it treats. Increasing specialization has sent the old−and often romanticized−doctor-patient relationship the way of such medical artifacts as the mustard plaster and the house call. New medical technology and a complicated insurance system have turned much of medicine from a profession into a business, reducing doctors to entrepreneurs and their patients to "medical consumers," who must be sold on the benefits of 20th century health care very...