Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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You've offered up a challenge in your article on lawyers [April 10]. Grouping any profession into generalities is never satisfactory, but you've certainly hit the most frequently discussed issues in any bar association.
Now available at a number of hospitals, including San Francisco's Mount Zion, the Phoenix Memorial in Arizona and the Golden Valley (Minn.) Health Center, such units seem, in doctors' eyes, an ideal compromise between two colliding interests: the growing enthusiasm of American women for having babies in...
One writer has perforce abandoned a well-learned profession for the typewriter. Kojak-bald Al Nussbaum, 44, was on the FBI's Most Wanted list in 1962; convicted on seven charges of bank robbery (he won't say how many other jobs he pulled), Nussbaum served 14 years...
The successful crime-mystery-suspense novel today, unlike a great deal of current fiction, must be skillfully plotted around a cast of credible, disparate, motivated characters; it almost invariably entails expert knowledge of a milieu or a profession; and it depends heavily on the author's familiarity with locale...
...about water beds. The funniest scenes-and there should have been more of them-take on the American medical profession. In the rude manner of Paddy Chayefsky's Hospital, House Calls suggests that doctors spend more time thinking about tax shelters and fancy cars than surgical procedures or professional ethics. The film's one outright hilarious character, played with vaudevillian relish by Art Carney, is a chief of surgery so senile that he says good morning to empty hospital stairwells...