Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thomas was graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1937, there the realization dawned on him and his contemporaries that "we didn't know much that was really useful, that we could do nothing to change the course of the great majority of the diseases we were so busy analyzing, that...
But in the 1950s, Thomas observed that "medicine was turning into a science." The discovery and use of a host of drugs such as sulfanilamide and antibiotics meant that many otherwise fatal diseases were easily curable. A new optimism swept through the profession; doctors became "convinced, overnight, that nothing lay...
The plot is standard romantic comedy fare. A successful married man falls passionately in love with his young, talented patient, and a few unusual plot twists do not compensate for the otherwise bland progression of the storyline. The standard comedic treatment of psychiatry as a profession--which makes Saul Benjamin...
...hook for merely behaving stupidly. Is he implying gross incompetence or a shallow carelessness? Perhaps, but these contentions, too, lessen the degree of personal culpability. No, when someone in authority is told that he ought to have anticipated a disaster, it means that the grand total of his professional experience and knowledge demanded, beyond reasonable doubt, that he behave differently than he did. Indeed, it is also beyond reason able doubt that he merely forgot or tossed aside all that profession al experience and knowledge when he neglected to act. Thus, "You should have known," in certain circumstances, becomes...
Another problem, as serious, is that I do think such a bill will adversely affect the quality of higher education. One of the more unusual features of our profession is--and it may not be that unusual--what it requires of young people. Young people frequently are better trained, they...