Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctors and medical students, has a well-earned reputation of placing its members' economic interests ahead of, well, everything else in the world. In the 1960s, the AMA opposed the creation of Medicaid and Medicare, for fear that government help to the poor and elderly might slice into physician profits. In the early 1970s, one president of the AMA declared that "health care is a privilege and not a right...
...There is nothing in this policy that would prevent a physician from providing a benficial service to a patient," writes the Physician Payment Review Commission, a bipartisan group which designed the medicare reform. In other words, the only thing rationed under the proposal are outrageously high doctor fees...
LORD BYRON'S DOCTOR by Paul West (Doubleday; $19.95). A tour de force about the cruelty of genius, starring Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary (author of Frankenstein) and the narrator, an indiscreet physician...
...betrays both her Harvard degree and her Calvinist roots. "The doctor first tries to prevent illness, then tries to treat it if it comes. It's exactly the same as what you try to do as a politician, but with regard to society." Which may help explain why this physician offers such a radical prescription for running a country and restoring its health, and why last week's national elections, in which her Labor Party dropped 6.5%, stirred such interest...
LORD BYRON'S DOCTOR by Paul West (Doubleday; $19.95). A brilliant tour de force about the cruelty of genius, starring Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary (author of Frankenstein) and the narrator, an indiscreet physician...