Word: samaritanism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...accepted rules and injurious to the patient. Last year alone, 6,000 doctors were sued. Jury awards in malpractice suits have nearly trebled since 1950; lawyers' fees, court costs, damages and out-of-court settlements in last year's cases totaled an estimated $50 million. Good Samaritan cases, such as the Denver doctors dodged, form a small but rich field for suits, because emergencies demand haste, often catch the doctor ill-equipped and ill-prepared...
Fighting Back. Physicians last year persuaded the California legislature to Dass a "Good Samaritan" law that guarantees civil immunity to doctors giving aid in emergencies, and the Colorado Bar Association is drafting similar legislation. Members of California's joint Alameda-Contra Costa Counties Medical Society, just across the bay from San Francisco, have a successful, 15-year-old malpractice review program that has been copied in eight other states. Its motto: "We fight when we're right and pay when we're wrong." Patients' complaints are studied by a board of 15 doctors and one clergy...
...land of the good Samaritan, it has been UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) that has met the stranger on the road to Jericho and given him succor-or, in modern specifications, emergency medical treatment, food, clothing and shelter. For ten years, since the end of the Israeli war in 1949, UNRWA has been helping support 1,000,000 Arab refugees in 58 camps around Israel's borders. Richer Arabs say it is up to the West to help their poor Arab brethren, because it was the West that invited Israel in to become a nation. The Israelis...
Rejecters Rejected. To Sunday-school boys, Samaritan is a name synonymous with "good." But to the Jews of Jesus' day, Samaritans were a despised people. In the 8th century B.C. the Samaritan kingdom was called Israel. When the Assyrians "swept down like a wolf on the fold," they carried off most of the Israelites, leaving behind a destitute few who eventually intermarried with the invaders. Two centuries later, the Persian Cyrus freed the Jews of Jerusalem and returned them to their homeland; the Samaritans offered to help rebuild the temple, but were coldly rebuffed...
...began what turned out to be his last work in Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1950, finished five years later in Rome, called it "the most difficult statue I have made." Milles early turned down the suggested subject for the memorial, a figure of the Good Samaritan, in favor of St. Martin of Tours, a 4th century Roman soldier. Something of a Samaritan himself, St. Martin, in the depths of the drastic, winter of 332 A.D. in France, cut his cloak in two with his sword and gave half to a freezing beggar. To give full scope...