Word: physician
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...husband, a physician and radiology resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital, later emphasized the parental right of choice. "We are not against those who want to have children," Shapiro said. "We merely want the validate the equality of choice. We're opposed to people who have children for the wrong reasons or for no reasons...
...full consent. State Senator Chester Atkins (D-Concord) introduced a bill into the legislature December 1973 which proposed to establish a review board of different specialists and three members of the public with the power to grant or deny permission for an operation for experimental neurosurgery and revoke a physician's license in connection with an infraction of their decision...
...Professional Standard Review Organization, as mandated by federal law, is a serious intrusion into the patient-doctor relationship. With peer review as the norm, some of the less expert medical practitioners may be selected out. But more important, the creative, humanistic, unorthodox physician will be selected out. For years, unofficial peer consensus militated against legalized abortion, home delivery, natural childbirth and the husband's presence in the delivery room...
...cannot allow your statements regarding Professional Standards Review Organizations [Dec. 17] to go unchallenged. As a practicing physician for 15 years, I feel that I am the better judge of what is good for medicine than some Washington bureaucrat. Your article leads one to think that Americans are dying by the thousands because of the incompetency of the American doctor. Nothing is farther from the truth. American medicine is recognized worldwide as being the best...
...develop breast cancer, more than half guessed 100 or more (the figure is closer to 50). Despite these fears, only 18% of the women performed a monthly self-examination (46% felt it would worry them unnecessarily), while close to half did not even have annual breast examinations by a physician. That significantly lessened their chances of early detection of disease, which is essential in controlling breast cancer...