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...When you talk about a physician you are talking about more than a technical competence. There is a whole system of caring and trust that goes along with being a doctor." Thomas Sullivan, a spokesman for Buffalo Children's Hospital said. Dr. Marshall A. Falk, executive vice president and dean of the School of Health Sciences. University of Chicago Medical School, agreed: "You are dealing with public trust. The relationship with a doctor is different than the one you have with a plumber...
...board will hear complaints ranging from practicing medicine drunk or without a license to being insane or being convicted of a felony. But no matter what the charge, it must follow the same protracted and complicated review process of investigations and hearing before disciplining a physician. Ironically, a doctor guilty of gang rape and one who may have botched a starlet's nosejob receive identical--and lenient--investment...
WHEN LEADERS of the medical profession are increasingly worried about maintaining their public reputation for competence--and are scurrying to dispel the image of some physician as drug addicts--it is silly to waste time investigating a physician whose case has already been decided. Obviously it should never revoke in a knee-jerk reaction to a felony conviction; no punishment should be that automatic. But if, for example, the law required court clerks to send the review board a transcript of the trial along with the notice of physician's conviction--and if the board were willing to simply review...
...recently agreed to lower the height of the proposed research center, which the Residents of Charles River Park group had said would obstruct their view of the river, and to relocate the Resident Physician House, which the Boston Hill Society had fought to save...
...start-before 1933 only eight states provided modest pensions based on need-but it took several years to resolve the complex arguments about how much to pay and how to finance the program. Considerable pressure came from the Townsend movement, the creation of Dr. Francis Townsend, a retired physician in California, whose yowl of protest began when he saw three old women sifting through garbage cans for scraps. Townsend wrote a letter to a newspaper demanding $150 a month for all old people, and that demand soon mushroomed into clubs, newspapers, protest meetings and the noisiest crusade...