Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The dean proposes a number of suggestions for those both within and outside the medical profession, aimed at forcing all groups to rethink their priorities as individuals in a responsible society. To counter the drastically low rate of organ donation, one of the most serious constraints on transplants, he suggests...
In addition, it's desirable to take advantage of medical education as an arena where problems get applied--not so much as solving questions, but having students recognize what their roles will be as physicians. Emphasis medical training has been on the profession in particular. We should stop looking at...
In what some doctors might call the "good old days," almost all medical breakthroughs emanated from the major university teaching hospitals, especially Harvard, Columbia and Johns Hopkins. But as suddenly as heart transplant recipients Barney Clark, William Schroeder and Baby Fae made nationwide headlines, the traditional medical colleges were shoved...
They're right. Both operations ran up tabs of well over $100,000--money which could have been used to save 20 times as many fatally diseased patients with considerably more success. In addition, the traditional checks and balances in the medical profession--which do not include government interference--would...
AT LEAST the operations at the Humana and Loma Linda Hospitals promised some widespread application in the future, compensating for their violations of the sacred medical code of ethics. The number of organs available from organ banks in this country will never match the number of needed transplants, and experimentation...