Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FEW more intimate relationships exist, outside the family or the church, than that of the average person with his doctor. Each year, nearly one billion visits are made to the U.S.'s 225,000 practicing doctors, or about five visits for every American. Each visitor expects not only medical...
The deprivation is only partly the doctor's fault. For the very reason that medical knowledge is expanding in quantum leaps, a modern doctor must spend much more time simply keeping abreast of his profession, thus has less time for individual patients. Moreover, his new skills can best be...
Although the American doctor ranks high in prestige (just below a U.S. Supreme Court Justice) and pay (average: $28,380), he has lately been dislodged from his old status as the grand panjandrum. In the bestselling Intern, the mysterious Dr. X-who well knew the necessity of shielding himself from...
Excerpts from the Moran book (Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965) were published in London by the Sunday Times, in the U.S. by LIFE, and last week all of Britain was arguing about them. "Sir Winston is having his phagocytes counted, his pneumogastric system checked and the eliminatory...
The sheer shortage of teachers and a system of tenure that ensures every professor his job for a lifetime prevent administrators from firing stale and incompetent teachers. Sociology Professor Robert Nisbet of the University of California's Riverside campus calls tenure "a blend of mystique and the sacred, as nearly...