Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CRAZY QUILT. Henry (Tom Rosqui), by profession a termite exterminator, is a completely illusionless man. Lorabelle (Ina Mela), who believes in Providence and butterflies, is a visionary maid. How this unlikely couple meet, marry, and share a long life together is the bittersweet burden of this American fable.
Then, with a sudden change in tone, his voice began to rise, to speed up, and soon he was racing through a fluent speech, hardly pausing for breath. He spoke for an hour, with restrained emotion, about the decay of his profession and his cause -- criminal law.
This savage indictment of U.S. medical practice forms the theme of The Doctors, a book probably headed for bestsellerdom. Its message seems to be that the ailing human being should keep his malaise a secret from the medical profession; otherwise, the doctor will surely blunder, the emergency ward will let...
Two Assumptions. It is possible that Gross, a freelance writer whose first book, The Brain Watchers, prompted a congressional inquiry into nosy psychological testing techniques, is genuinely interested in sparking a similar inquiry into the medical profession. It is even conceivable that such a thoughtless, careless and incendiary book as...
That possibility rests on two invalid assumptions. The first is that the medical profession is dominated by money-grabbing scoundrels who will never let the profession heal itself. The second is that the way to repair it is to infuriate patients into action by painting all doctors as evil, incompetent...