Word: physicians
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...many years in exile, has the political muscle to instigate a change, though he is known to have broad backing among the military. His move was clearly timed to take advantage of growing opposition to the regime, most notably by rebellious university students (TIME, March 12). As an Athenian physician observed last week: "He must have support behind him. Caramanlis is much too smart to believe the colonels are going to go away just because he asks them...
Among the offending leaders, Maliver cites Manhattan's Dr. Daniel Casriel, a physician who, says Maliver, admits that he was dismissed from his analytic institute and appears to make "as much as $12,000 each week." "Name any psychiatric symptom," Maliver writes, "and Casriel will tell you how long it will take him to eradicate it." According to Maliver, Casriel promises patients "an accelerated re-education of your 'ABCs' A = affect-feelings-emotions. B = behavior-act-actions. C = cognition-attitudes-thoughts...
Infinitely more painful for the physician than denying a coma-stricken patient a vegetable existence is telling an outwardly active one that he cannot afford to live. Artificial kidney machines have proved the first example of a lifesaving treatment whose staggering cost had prevented widespread use. Sessions are long and painful, and the relief is only temporary, but for those who have had their kidneys destroyed by disease, it is the only alternative to a transplantation or death. Before adequate Federal funding was available, doctors in the field had to decide who would be one of the thousands...
...choices, but any guidelines turn out to be callous and dehumanizing. Who do you save, a father of four or a brilliant scientist? And what if a patient expresses a desire to die: is a cooperative doctor aiding a suicide? Disagreement with the patient, relatives and colleagues forces the physician to make these decisions alone and stand by them. In the absence of sufficient funding or any other guidelines, it is often reduced to a matter of who can afford the treatments...
These new techniques--such as computerized pre-natal diagnosis which can present the physician with a rapid picture of the baby's chromosome pattern--would make the positive detection of some 30 to 40 genetic defects very possible. The advantages are obvious. With the increasing availability of abortion as a means for birth control, many people feel that if abortions can be performed on ostensibly normal but unwanted children, they can be performed on deformed children who would presumably be unwanted if the parents had foreknowledge of their defects...