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Lewis: ... When you get into the norms of journalism, you are trying to impose a straight-jacket on a profession which isn't a profession and which for the best of reasons in American history, that you have stated--the kind of country we are--should not be stamped out...
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...