Word: physician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many letters to the Times as the paper's editorials. Although some of the political contributions have been a bit pedantic, other offerings have produced delight, drama and deliberate outrage. The most inflammatory essay to date was an open letter to his college-bound son by a Southern physician, Dr. Paul Williamson. Stick to studying and necking and avoid revolution, wrote the father, or "expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you." More than 300 letters poured in to the Times, most of them...
...ensure a high level of care. The rate of infant mortality is lower in twelve other industrial countries. Men in 17 other countries live longer than Americans do; women live longer in ten. Distribution of services is so spotty that more than 40 million people virtually never see a physician under any circumstances, and millions of others do so only after having been struck by serious illness. Soaring costs and the scarcity of practitioners and facilities in many areas have retarded the development of preventive medicine. Nationally, the U.S. does not really have a healthcare system; rather...
...well. Its emphasis on hospitals as the principal purveyors of primary care could, many fear, force the patient to accept treatment from any doctor who happened to be available. This, opponents feel, would deny them the right to choose their own doctors. It would alter still further the physician-patient relationship, a personal tie that has already been strained by a number of factors, including growing specialization...
...Marketplace. The Administration bill would protect the patient's freedom to choose his own physician. But it is no more likely than Kennedy-Griffiths to curb the rising costs of care. Merely enabling more people to pay for health care will only increase the demand for services, not the supply, thus contributing to the medical inflation that makes action necessary in the first place. Moreover, as John Krizay of the 20th Century Fund points out, the determination of doctors' fees is simply "not in the marketplace." Doctors, he notes, can and do create their own demand for their...
...family physician bucks the case to a psychosomaticist, who flounders in jargon. It takes a young Jesuit psychiatrist-priest, equally familiar with the uses of Librium and prayer, to understand that Regan suffers from old-fashioned possession by the devil. Sometimes known as Captain Howdy, he speaks through Regan's mouth, fills her room with his bad breath and levitates furniture. Lacking any of the stature of his medieval forms or any of the wit of his 19th and 20th century literary incarnations, this devil seems little more than a pathetic old pedophiliac clinging to the mere body...