Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accompany a resident as he stopped at patients' bedsides. At 11:30 he wolfed down a sandwich and spent the rest of his lunch hour in the library reviewing patients' records to prepare himself for teaching rounds, when he would tour the ward with an attending physician. From 4 p.m., when the tour ended, until dinnertime, Condon continued his morning routine...
Condon admits that such hectic shifts are not routine, but feels that for him they occur too often. He believes that tired physicians may overlook things in their examinations and "minimize the symptoms." He argues that, while fatigue is bad for a physician, it is even worse for his patient...
Under the settlement that ended the walkout, the hospitals agreed to form committees of interns, residents and physician members of their medical executive boards to work out separate agreements on work hours and patient care tailored to meet each institution's financial and medical needs. The hospitals also agreed to a C.I.R. demand that no intern or resident be required to work more than one out of every three nights, a practice most of these institutions now follow anyway...
...indisputable" that the fetus, though dependent on the mother, is a separate organism, argued Leon Kass, a physician and professor of "bioethics" at Georgetown University. The fetus is also "human," at least in being "of human origin and in the process of becoming a human being -if nothing interferes." Paul Ramsey, professor of religion at Princeton University, says in his new book, The Ethics of Fetal Research (Yale University Press; $2.95), that the fetus is "live enough not to be dead, not yet mature enough to be an infant, yet a human being enough to deserve protection...
Solutions are needed fast. In New York, for example, the Argonaut Insurance Co., which was denied a hike of 196.8% in January (after a 93.5% rise last July), plans to cancel all physician policies on July 1. No other company has volunteered to take over for Argonaut, which insures most of the state's doctors. In Maryland, a court order is now preventing the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co., the state's major malpractice insurer, from carrying out its plan to cancel all physician policies. Similar crises exist in North Carolina, Michigan, California and Florida...