Word: physician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beverly Geltzer of Baldwin, N.Y., was not unduly upset when her son Jordan, 12, broke his arm during a gym class last week. But her coolness turned to anger when she took her son to a nearby hospital. There she learned that neither her own physician nor any other orthopedic surgeon was available to set the arm, and Jordan would have to be treated at Nassau County Medical Center, where he was to wait six uncomfortable hours before his injury could be handled in the busy emergency room. "It's unbelievable," said Mrs. Geltzer. "I feel like...
...surgical spectaculars like heart transplants. People also enjoy the television programs that show Marcus Welby and his colleagues regularly triumphing over death and disease. Since they now expect more from doctors, they are less willing to accept bad results and far more willing to blame them on a physician's failure. "People do not understand that everything is not going to result in a perfect outcome every time," says the A.M.A.'s executive vice president Dr. James Sammons. "We've fallen into the trap of being incredulous when a perfect result doesn't occur...
This is not the place to defend either a woman's right to determine the outcome of an unwanted pregnancy in consultation with a physician, or the right of a physician to exercise his best judgement. The Edelin decision and the continued prosecution of other City Hospital doctors are outrages to these rights. It is encouraging that Edelin is appalling the conviction, and that a state law that attempts to duplicate the effects of the decision in Rhode Island has been rejected by the courts. But it is regrettable that such a process of salvaging alienated rights ever...
State Pool. The states are slowly moving to provide help. Indiana, whose Governor Otis Bowen is himself a physician, created a state insurance fund, established a panel to screen malpractice claims and weed out nuisance suits, and set a ceiling on malpractice awards. Legislatures in Idaho and Maryland have enacted similar measures. New York lawmakers, seeking to avoid a doctors' strike, acted to assure malpractice coverage by passing legislation to create a pool made up of companies now writing insurance in New York and enabling the state medical society to form its own insurance fund as an alternative. Unhappy...
Some of his aides were miffed, but not Ford. He returned to the family quarters in the White House, gratefully accepted a sleeping pill from his physician, Dr. William Lukash, and sank into bed exhausted...