Word: remiss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bernard L . Towers, co-director of trhe CCLA program in Medicine, Law and Human Values, said recentrly, "There is ano question that the medical profession is remiss in policing itslef. There is a lot that goes on that people turn a blind eye to and a great many people don't want to get involved" At least some leaders of the medical profession are tryhing to change that...
...PURITANISM runs deep at Harvard. The University, we are reminded often, was first founded as a training school for young ministers. Here they would come to study liturgy and oratory, learning how to guide souls in righteousness and lead back the heretic and the remiss. Here, shivering in spare wood-paneled dorms and dining rooms, they would combat the freezing snow and wind outside with the fires of religious devotion they hoped to kindle...