Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Women now sit in Congress, occupy the mayor's office of several U.S. communities, deliver the news on television and even work as professional furniture movers. But women remain a rarity in a profession for which they are eminently qualified-medicine. Only 21,000, or 7%, of the country's 300,000 doctors are female. Though the U.S. needs at least 50,000 new doctors to meet current needs, little has been done until recently to attract more women into medicine...
In the night world of San Francisco, Fillmore Slim, Soulful Spider and Bobby Joe from Baltimo' practice the same profession. All three are black players in "the game"-pimps in the world of prostitution. They and about 40 of their fellows, along with the hundred prostitutes who support them...
...idea was born in 1948, when Corinna Brocher, 4, innocently asked her daddy, Psychiatrist Tobias Brocher, "How did you learn to be a father?" Brocher, temporarily speechless, eventually gave his daughter a noncommittal answer. But he began to reflect on the astonishing fact that there was no professional training for what he considered "the most important profession" -parenthood...
At the peak of the U.S. buildup in early 1969, there were 590,800 U.S. troops in Southeast Asia, including 543,400 in South Viet Nam. "The war effort spread dollar windfalls around the Far East." reports TIME Correspondent Louis Kraar. "An unusually wide range of Asians profited-Japanese manufacturers...
New Habit. For all its dramatic effects, methadone therapy still stirs strong argument within the medical profession. The debate began in 1964 when Drs. Vincent Dole and Marie Nyswander first started using the drug to wean addicts away from heroin. Methadone programs, which cost an average of $1,500 a...