Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The omission of Dr. Arif Hussain's criminal background raises questions beyond those of medical ethics. By showing themselves more willing to bail out a friend than to obey the moral rules of their profession, the doctors called into question the legitimate uses of influence and revealed the kind of...
But an issue of this magnitude should not be abandoned to the prevailing winds. The negligence shown by the four recommending doctors was morally unjustifiable and neither their friendship with Hussain nor the probable negligence of Buffalo Children's Hospital should exonerate them. We urge both Harvard and the Massachusetts...
She explained that "the purpose of the trial was not for making millions of dollars; it was to inform the many women who have been wronged by the medical profession nationwide."
PSYCHOANALYSIS: THE IMPOSSIBLE PROFESSION by Janet Malcolm; Knopf; 174 pages; $9.95
For these reasons alone, one would have to agree with Janet Malcolm, a staff writer for The New Yorker, that psychoanalysis is "the impossible profession." Her artful, illuminating survey of the field suggests an even stronger reason. After decades of popularizations and spinoffs, the talking cure appears to have trivialized...