Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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> Strengthening the confidentiality of the physician-patient relationship, and calling for stronger self-policing in weeding out unethical and incompetent colleagues. Says Dr. James Todd, a Ridgewood, N.J., surgeon who headed the code-revision committee: "A lot of physicians don't like to concede that there are incompetent doctors...
While the A.M.A. stresses that the revisions were prompted by new knowledge and social awareness, it also admits that they are politically astute as well. As Todd explains, "There is great danger in no change because that will leave the profession out of step." Which is what seemed to be...
...actor, who performed his World War II service making training films in Hollywood, possesses a respect for the military that borders on awe. Eisenhower, after a professional lifetime in uniform, took a more jaundiced view. He knew more about war and arms than his Defense Secretaries and Joint Chiefs ever did. He did not hesitate to contradict them. He resisted military spending. He believed in "nuclear sufficiency," not superiority; he knew that nuclear weapons had forever, unalterably, changed his old profession. Eisenhower was not inclined to rattle the saber too much. Ironically, it was the Democrats in 1960 who campaigned...
New York was the first state to strip Ali of his crown. Illinois and other followed. When Ali ran out of states to fight in he tried to leave the country for a bout. "No go," said the State Department, and suddenly Muhammad Ali was a man without a profession...
If there's anything the teaching profession doesn't need to add to its troubles, it's an article like yours-sure to encourage more parents to say, "It's O.K.,