Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope that the introduction of PSROs, timid first step that it is, represents a movement toward bringing accountability into health care. As the nation's largest union of health-care employees (including a handful of doctors), we believe that shedding light on medical practices and patient care in America will benefit the taxpayers, the workers and, most of all, the patients...
...your readers don't know that a patient-be-damned attitude exists within the medical profession, it is time they learned. I have been close enough to doctors to not want to get closer (respiratory trouble), and have come to view the American doctor in general as the most repugnant, money-grabbing and discourteous animal on the face of the earth...
Service doctors usually get along well with their native counterparts -witch doctors. "I've even had some among my patients," says Wood. But there are exceptions. Dr. Spoerry once had to leave a patient behind and take off in a hurry to avoid being speared to death by warriors urged on by an angry woman witch doctor, who saw the airborne medic as a competitor...
...Rosa, Calif., and hit an oncoming car, one of the victims, Colenda Ward, 12, suffered irreversible brain damage. Flores, 23, was charged with manslaughter and felonious drunken driving. But there was a macabre technicality. After determining that Colenda had suffered cerebral death, doctors successfully transplanted her heart into a patient at the Stanford University Medical Center...
That seemed reasonable. But at the A.M.A.'s semiannual convention in Anaheim, Calif., last week, the vocal majority of the 3,179 members attending were unequivocally against PSROS. Amid calls to preserve traditional liberties and the secrecy of doctor-patient relation ships, some observers heard a jarring undertone of "The patient be damned." As hyperbole and passion carried the day, the embarrassed A.M.A. leadership was forced to accept a schizophrenic compromise under which it will both try to get the PSRO law repealed and at the same time try to get it amended...