Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Nevada state legislature last week became the first in the nation to declare traditional Chinese medicine "a learned profession." By nearly unanimous vote, the lawmakers legalized acupuncture, herbal medicine and other Chinese practices. What sold them was neither Nixonian detente nor the thoughts of Mao, but a free Chinese...
Government policy making is not the only area of the legal profession which requires the type of broad experience with human problems which can only be learned from books. If a lawyer seeks to advise people, he must have some insight into how all parties concerned in any given transaction...
Investigators discovered that the Interior Ministry alone had bought "several hundred" bugging devices since 1969, but their search concentrated primarily on private detectives. When one of them was found to have two microtransmitters in his office, the head of the Italian detectives association, Pier Davide Tavazzi, called a press conference...
Curbing unethical behavior within the medical profession and the biomedical research arena is a task to which the Medical School should feel committed.
The age-old injunction to solidarity within the medical profession, and the physician's privilege of expecting no criticism from his peers must be discarded. And the Medical School should feel compelled to organize that effort.