Word: professional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: I recoil at the inclusion of Dr. Michael DeBakey among latter-day hero physicians. He may be a hero to the medically unsophisticated press and public, but he is no hero to the medical community from which he has isolated himself. The medical profession has displayed its opprobrium with...
...individuality of the physician should be preserved. As an educated man he sould be critical and willing to express his personal views and not simply parrot the party line of his professional group. It is curious that at a time when medicine is thought to be one of the few remaining vocations which emphasizes the importance of the individual that in fact the physican is firmly bound by the convention of his profession...
Rolls closed on Medicare registration last week. Some 17.3 million people over 65 (an incredible 91% of those eligible) had signed up for the voluntary $3-a-month insurance plan that entitles them to bargain-rate doctors' care beginning July 1. On that day, a total of 19.1 million...
...amenities of professional intercourse, and the obligations of medical men toward each other and the public, were perhaps better observed in 1850 than now. Then the doctor, next to the minister, was the trusted friend and counselor of every family to whom he ministered. He shared their joys, soothed their sorrows, and every passing year added to and cemented the attachment and affection between them. Now the doctor is regarded more in the light of a tradesman or mechanic, and is employed from the same consideration that a grocer, tailor or shoemaker is. The strong ties of gratitude and affection...
...adversary system requires a lawyer to lie or permit his client to lie in court. No lawyer worthy of the profession will do it. Freedman's view that the lawyer is obligated to permit his client to lie if his client wants to strips the lawyer of all professional claims and presents the lawyer in the distorted but popular image of the "mouthpiece...