Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but what brings him to you when he is needed? Your cover story about the condition of U.S. medicine [Feb. 21] is an answer to the tired taxpayers', angered insurance policyholders' and bedraggled yet interested citizens' prayer! Up to this point, religion, politics, sex, and especially education have been placed on the American scaffold. What makes medicine sacrosanct? Bravo for the expose of both the overworked, underpaid members of the medical profession and the utter lack of recourse of nearly all U.S. citizens in approaching the business...
...Sir: As an American physician I object strongly to the one-sided vision you and most Americans have of American medicine. I object to the implication that the A.M.A. consists mainly of money-hungry gnomes growing fat on the infirmity of others. I object to the implication that most American hospitals are shabbily administered barns where mature, gentle, understanding, heroic people are pricked, poked, herded and harassed practically against their will with almost no regard for their psychological and emotional needs. It just isn't so. But why this overreaction...
...Sir: In the midst of a great social awakening in this country, organized medicine stands as one of the last bastions of reaction. Although our technical advances exceed those of other nations, our relative distribution of those advances to the people is declining. Until socially oriented medical progress can be initiated from the top ranks of the profession instead of always from the bottom (students), and until doctors can be trusted to police themselves, the richest nation on earth will continue to be the recipient of some of the poorest care. As a future member of the medical profession...
...held without bail. "Painful as the task may be," Clarke explained, "the university has the duty to see that academic freedom is preserved and that no one is permitted to threaten or destroy its functions." If tried and convicted, the rioters-28 of whom are not even students at Sir George Williams-could receive prison sentences stretching from five years to life...
SIMILARLY, when the Sack Theatres ran To Sir, With Love--"at the time, we had no idea what kind of movie it was," Opin said--BAD ran a special ad in one issue with a coupon offering a 50 cent discount on Mondays through Thursday. "The coupon kept coming in for 15 weeks, although the ad only appeared once," Opin said...