Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a difference of kind between a House system designed to force intellectual life on prep school graduates who already have their eyes set on careers and places in society and a system for graduates of public or private schools who have been-propelled to Harvard by their unusual...
Sir: TIME is to be commended for opening its pages to an examination of academic freedom [May 101. However, it is unfortunate that your article, at one point, may create the impression that college professors employ academic freedom "to license oddball behavior" or to "give special sanction to a teacher...
Resistance to each change in the structure of the medical profession has generally been defended by arguments that change would impair the quality of care and destroy the doctor-patient relationship. These arguments are weak.
The success of group practice and cooperative insurance plans has shown that third-party payment need not lower the quality of care. Indeed, removing doctors from the business of medicine might free more of their energies for the art and science of medicine. There is no a priori reason why...
In 1953, "Medical Education Today," a report by the deans of leading American medical schools, recognized the social and economic problems which confront medicine. Unfortunately, academic medicine has not been able to lead a reconstruction of the profession because of the opposition to change of the AMA. By its failure...