Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well as ethics, Bok calls for more courses on employee relations and government regulation--two other emerging fields. But some B-School faculty think Bok overlooked the considerable attention the school already pays to these areas. Just recently the faculty passed a revised curriculum including treatment, at least in bits and pieces, of the areas Bok outlines. Curricular reform is always a thorny process and not likely to occur again soon...
...problem is not loose-lipped doctors but the increasing complexity of medical care. No longer is all treatment provided at home or in physicians' offices. It is administered at hospitals or clinics, where nurses, lab technicians, therapists, pharmacists and other functionaries join with doctors in building mountains of medical information about the patient. To complicate matters, the patient does not pick up the hospital tab directly. That is done by insurance companies or government agencies, so-called third parties, all of whom claim a legitimate right to look into what they are paying...
Even if patients object to violations of their privacy, they cannot prevent them since hospitals and insurance companies commonly insist that patients sign "any and all" release forms as a precondition of treatment. These give the institutions virtually a free hand to distribute information from a patient's files. Nor do the limited restrictions that exist provide much assurance of secrecy. Information can often be ferreted out of computer memories by anyone with access to a terminal. The curious can also enter busy hospital record rooms by simply passing themselves off as doctors. Besides learning about a patient...
Nothing has done as much to revolutionize treatment of serious mental illness as the development of drugs like Thorazine. Since their introduction about a generation ago, these powerful antipsychotics have freed tens of thousands of patients from the despair of mental institutions. Some patients have even resumed normal, useful lives. Yet as important as the miracle drugs have been, they are not without serious drawbacks...
...Harvard, Dr. Joseph Schildkraut and his colleagues have devised a urine test that can distinguish types of depressive disorders and hence indicate the best available drug for treatment...