Word: professionalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The World Medical Association aims, among other things: "1) to promote closer ties among national medical associations, and 2) to maintain the honor . . . of the medical profession." Last week, these two worthy aims were brought into sharp conflict as W.M.A. delegates from 39 member nations convened in Manhattan. Before them...
General Hershey was tired of objections, foot dragging, and comfortable talk of deferments. It seemed, he said bitterly last week, that "everyone has the idea no one can make a contribution unless the country can use him in his own peculiar profession, trade, or specialty." Snorted Hershey: "I haven'...
...professional educators tolerate this sort of thing? To some extent, says Sperry, they have no alternative. Since public-school teachers are wretchedly underpaid, the profession seldom gets the cream of high-school graduates ("The English don't have a democracy," cried one student teacher in the course of a history class. "They have a king.") The colleges themselves seldom have the money that other institutions have, and their professors-"the men who teach the teachers-rank close to the bottom of the prestige ladder in the academic world." The great universities and the liberal arts colleges consistently ignore their...
This week, for his yeoman work in safeguarding the lives and raising the health standards of both TVA workers and valley dwellers, Dr. Bishop, 64, got a top honor in his profession: a Lasker Award ($1,000 plus a gold copy of the Victory of Samothrace), given annually by the...
Dr. James Howard Means, professor at Harvard Medical School and chief of medical services at Massachusetts General Hospital, is more specific. "Organized medicine cries now for voluntary health plans but does little to produce them. The record shows that when others have sought to do these things, organized medicine has...