Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The dichotomies and contradictions implicit in the practice of medicine are numerous. The nature of medicine is two-fold: the science and the art coexist. The doctor's relationship with his patient is of a dual character. As Plato suggests, the physician is a friend to his patient as both...
And what of experimentation with human subjects? The issue has become a heated one in light of the recently disclosed Tuskegee syphillitic study. This and the aforementioned economic questions illuminate issues of more general social consequences than those in the strictly medical arena. Amidst legitimate charges of the abuse of...
I have only presented in capsulated from some of the issue of contemporary medical ethics. Although our biases in the following pages will inevitably be transparent, we attempt only to enlighten our readers to the issues. For clearly all of society must now contend with these problems. We cannot give...
Medical authorities often testify as "expert witnesses" for either the prosecution or the defense, but only occasionally do doctors themselves become the center of the court's attention. Last month, however, one of the newest techniques in the medical profession went on trial in Detroit, as a parade of medical...
The girls and their customers are not the only ones involved in Kohls' scheme. There are also the 300 investors from Germany (and from five other European countries) who have so far put $9.2 million into the Annabella venture for a guaranteed annual return of 9%. To recruit additional...