Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TENANTS: 'Disastrous and irresponsible. Harvard wants to make a nice quick profit...
...hear the tenant organizers tell it, Harvard is getting out of the market to make a quick profit and bypass Cambridge rent control laws...
...transplants, yet the limited capacity approach can be only part of the solution. The issue of organ transplant distinguishes itself from other pressing medical controversies, like abortion, because it creates a competition that entails the somewhat morbid prospect of the buying and selling of organs, and thus lives, for profit. The "limited capacity" scenario allows for "retrospective review," i.e. hindsight, because it slows down transplant technology. However, this slowdown could actually limit the possibility of resolving the competition by removing the constraints--by developing the technology so that organs are plentiful, and the operation is cheaper. By legislating organ transplants...
...Harvard doctors have broken the usually silent ranks of the medical profession lest the public become overly enthralled in the aberration. Likewise, the Humana Hospital has been charged with a gross neglect of established health policy by venturing into the artificial health field with an eye for publicity and profit...
...real benefits, it should take its own advice and regain its national prominence by boasting the number of lives it saves using reasonable medical practices rather than by advertising advances in the esoteric transplant field. Only then will this country realize the wastefulness of expensive operations performed in profit-and publicity-seeking hospitals...