Word: treatment
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Nowhere are the problems more evident than in Detroit and Washington, two archdioceses where the church is confronting sharp dissatisfaction among blacks. In Washington, a fiery, articulate black priest named George A. Stallings Jr., fed up with the church's treatment of blacks, plans to defy James Cardinal Hickey this week by inaugurating his own independent African- American Catholic Congregation. In Detroit, black resentment is aimed at Edmund Cardinal Szoka, who last week finally shut down 21 of the city's 114 parishes, mostly in black neighborhoods, with nine others soon to follow. The action came despite angry protests...
Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes is a former national security adviser to President Reagan, and the man who coined the term "evil empire" to describe the Soviet Union. He teaches a Core course on the [Russian Revolution] which is not known for its sympathetic treatment of Bolshevism...
...possible that where people live can determine what medical treatment they receive? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. "There is an underlying assumption that two doctors in two different places will prescribe the same treatment," says Dr. Phil Caper, who founded the Codman Research Group in Lyme, N.H., to study variations in the patterns of physician care. "That just...
...Treatment patterns can vary among communities because doctors in different places have different methods. Within a given hospital, doctors tend to consult one another and reach a consensus on how to practice, but that consensus may not be the same in another city. In some areas, for example, the frequency of hysterectomies is three times as high as in other places. As discoveries like these accumulate, statistical evidence begins to raise doubts about the scientific certainty usually associated with medicine...
...major reason that medical practices vary so widely is that doctors suffer from a shortage of certain essential information. Despite the proliferation of medical reports and journals, there are few statistics on the comparative results of clinical procedures. And there is no comprehensive national collection of data concerning what treatments work best for what kind of patients. In fact, relatively little systematic research has been done on the "outcomes" of patients' treatment -- whether they get better or worse, live...