Word: professionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With only a few notable exceptions, such as some senior officials of the American Medical Association, almost everyone agrees that modern medicine is as sick as the patients it treats. Increasing specialization has sent the old−and often romanticized−doctor-patient relationship the way of such medical artifacts...
What possessed the Times? According to Assistant Managing Editor Peter Millones, the paper had been looking for a chance to sponsor "an adventure done in good taste." The Loch Ness project was suggested in April, and once the paper was convinced that "a serious scientific expedition" could result, it agreed...
Even if one grants that a cadre of inner-directed souls--something akin to the innovator class that Joseph Schumpeter said is the driving force behind social and economic progress--is necessary in every profession, something is wrong with a process that is fundamentally geared toward inner direction. An educational...
"Someone had to bite the bullet on this," said McLaughlin after the trial, citing a "void in the law. It is high time the issue was decided legally. There has been so much confusion in hospitals, so much pain for families. The medical profession needed guidelines. Now doctors can know...
But the irascible king pin of the country's number one newspaper saved his severest criticism for those of his own profession.