Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desire to locate my natural parents, I can only hope that the laws that protect our records will not be amended. For some reason, I had to be given up. I was placed with the two most wonderful parents anyone could hope for. I can think of nothing worse than some woman coming up to me and telling me she is my natural mother...
...mounting costs of equipment and rising wages for office personnel are all contributing to the increasingly steep price that doctors everywhere must pay to practice their profession. In New York State last week, overhead costs grew still more. Premiums for malpractice insurance-which almost every physician carries to protect himself against lawsuits by his patients-rose by a whopping 93.5%. The increase will make the state's doctors pay the highest average malpractice rates in the nation and could have an enormous influence upon the way medicine is practiced...
...patient who will ultimately bear the burden of increased costs. Many doctors now try to protect themselves against lawsuits by running extra tests and taking additional X rays, the price of which is reflected on the patient's bill. Physicians generally resent the need to practice such "defensive medicine" but feel that it is absolutely necessary. "We are shivering in our boots," says Dr. John Gregory, a Bronxville, N.Y., obstetrician. "We sometimes find that we face almost every patient more as an adversary than a friend." Gregory and his partners in practice protect themselves by ordering a wide range...
...bureaucracy, his only outlet may be a reporter who will protect his anonymity while publishing the facts. Most newsmen feel that without leaks, the Government would simply control all news about itself...
This will be possible only if the Government in turn is reasonably open, does not cheat as a matter of habit, does not use appeals to national security and secret classifications as a means to hide from the people or protect it self politically...