Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...During my recovery I began to think, 'What can I do to profit aids research from my experience?' so I decided to create a fund for AIDS research," Brudnoy said in an interview...
With such a multimotivated triad producing a wealth of wonders, it is no surprise that medicine's great advance has been at once high-minded and profit-minded, selfless and selfish, inspired and pragmatic, sublime and boorish. With its emphasis on technology, the juggernaut of medical science has often strained and frayed the traditional personal bond between doctor and patient. It has presented medicine with a tangle of ethical dilemmas, bringing moral implications ever closer to daily life--and death. And, if that were not enough, it confronts society and government with the urgent problem of just...
...rapidly proliferating HMOs--most of them investor owned and for profit--seem to be interested firstly in managing costs and only secondarily in maintaining health. When profit, not health, is the objective, it poses a real threat--to the doctor-patient relationship, to academic medical centers, to medical research and to those who are unable to obtain health insurance. Whatever its flaws, traditional fee-for-service medicine always allowed physicians to act as advocates for their patients. HMOs cannot assure us that physicians will, in every instance, put their patients' interests first...
...would attract more kids by refusing to issue licenses to baseball card companies with exorbitant prices. I may be an economics concentrator, but when it comes to baseball, profit is secondary...
...Some of the delegates and representatives are like, 'They're just kids,'" said Dodge, a reporter for Children's Express, a non-profit organization in which teenagers write news...