Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The hitch may be that for men to be so, women will have to further alter their expectations. As Farrell points out, despite their interest in openness and sensitivity, "most women still emphasize economics over intimacy" in seeking a male partner. Chances are they cannot have it both ways. "Many...
The AIDS crisis may be undermining the "ethical foundation of health care itself." So warned U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop last week in Washington before President Reagan's commission on the HIV epidemic. Citing reports of doctors and other health-care workers "who refuse to treat persons with AIDS...
Wald, a former assistant secretary of Consumer Affairs for Massachusetts, said she has worked before on the problems of women in the law profession. She plans to use that experience to focus on the problems that women and minorities face at Harvard Law School. She said she also wants to...
The A.M.A. argues that only the medical profession can intelligently guide the training of its own members. But in New York, Axelrod is pushing for implementation of his proposed changes by next July. Thus the medical profession in its reluctance to heal itself may be forced to swallow the bitter...
...attorney's sense of dignity and self-worth. The hustle of the marketplace will adversely affect the profession's service orientation. ((We)) commend the spirit of public service with which the profession of law is practiced . . . But we find the postulated connection between advertising and the erosion of true professionalism to be severely strained. At its core, the argument presumes that attorneys must conceal from themselves and from their clients the real-life fact that lawyers earn their livelihood at the bar. We suspect that few attorneys engage in such self-deception...