Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remains to be seen whether Mike Dukakis can stage such a dramatic comeback. But whatever his fate, the Duke deserves better treatment than he has been getting lately...
...fifty chance of benefiting from the encounter. The doctor's cheery manner and solicitous style were compensation for the uncertainty of a cure. "Medicine originally was mainly talk," says Sidney Wolfe, a physician who directs the Public Citizen Health Research Group in Washington, "and very little effective diagnosis and treatment...
Those who, like Ponce, lament the anonymous quality of their treatment reflect a second revolution in patient care: the rise of the medical- industrial complex. Every bit as important as the advances in technology are the means of delivering them and deciding who should pay. Instead of an individual doctor seeing his regular patients in the privacy of his office, the typical encounter now occurs in the thick of a vast corporate hierarchy that monitors every decision and may weigh in against it. Marketing medicine has become very big business...
Physicians and patients who are not part of an HMO have found their lives affected too. The government (as the largest health insurer) and the private insurance companies have tried to cap medical costs by deciding in advance how much a particular treatment should cost and balking at anything above that amount. Many doctors can no longer decide how often they see a patient, when one can be hospitalized, or even what drugs may be prescribed. Those decisions are now in the hands of third parties, hands that have never touched the patient directly...
...false ideal of tolerance has not only outlawed censorship but discouraged censoriousness (another word for censure). Most civilizations have expressed their moral values by mobilization of social opprobrium. That, rather than specific legislation, is what changed the treatment of minorities in films and TV over recent years. One can now draw opprobrious attention by gay bashing, as the Beastie Boys rock group found when their distributor told them to cut out remarks about "fags" for business reasons. Or by anti-Semitism, as the just disbanded rap group Public Enemy has discovered...