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Even at a hospital like Duke, where the emphasis is on specialty and cutting-edge medicine, almost half the 130 residents in the department of medicine are training to become primary-care physicians. This is the future of health care--a back-to-basics return to the profession's roots...
John Rosen, a psychiatrist from Philadelphia, did not beat around the bush when he treated his patients. Looking into their eyes, he told neurotic patients they were "crazy," accused schizophrenics of "lying," and threatened to "kill" any patient who acted "abnormal." His methodology was drastic, brutal and, surprisingly, well admired...
In Madness on the Couch, Edward Dolnick, a veteran science writer for Health magazine and The Boston Globe, explores how Rosen-type therapists saturated the psychoanalytic profession with bad science, unearned hubris and treatment that was patently dangerous to patients and families. Dolnick does not launch into a diatribe against...
...answer might be the lack of respect the teaching profession is given throughout the nation. Moss points out, "Teaching is in a state of quasi-professionalism. Teachers are technically professionals with professional training, but they are not making professional salaries or earning professional respect." One of the best ways to change the attitudes of politicians who use teacher bashing as the main plank of their campaign platforms or of those who view teachers as unskilled laborers covered in chalk dust is to get into the classroom and improve the education of our nation's children. Harvard would do well...
This is not to say that everyone at Harvard should chuck their career plans in order to teach. But we should all think about it. "You have to feel, not just know, you are needed, and also you have to test your interest and love for kids," writes Hodder. We...