Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ophthalmology fellow at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, illegally administered a Vitamin A-based drug for dry eye to almost 300 patients. Worst of all, Tseng held a large financial stake--valued at $3.4 million--in the company which produces the drug, wrote misleading reports magnifying the treatment's effectiveness, and failed to inform patients about the drug...
...condition of the homeless is appalling, solutions can seem hopelessly complex. Offering the medical treatment necessary for a derelict alcoholic is different from providing job training and education for a welfare mother, counseling for a teenage runaway or more income for a worker trying to secure an apartment. Yet no matter what their other difficulties, the homeless share a simple problem: they need a place to live. The best response to homelessness is to build more housing. This wealthy nation should start with a basic policy: no American should have to sleep on the street...
...October 1979, in desperate need of treatment, the Shah was allowed to enter the U.S. temporarily. By the time he checked into New York Hospital, he had an international collection of physicians. Shawcross's last chapters reverberate with the clash of medical opinions and large egos. When things sorted out, the Shah was back in Egypt, where his spleen was removed by the renowned Texas heart surgeon Michael DeBakey. The procedure also revealed fatal malignancies of the liver...
...Black who has seen an incident like this believe that the system would work for them? The same question applies to the perennial election year debate over why so few Blacks register to vote. If the system repeatedly denies equal treatment to all its citizens, the experiment of democracy breaks down. If one Black person has been discriminated against by a biased jury, then how can any of us have faith that justice exists...
Although most public criticism has been focused on the inclusion of the death penalty, what's forgotten is that the new bill also authorizes major new expenditures for education, treatment, rehabilitation and law enforcement efforts. The bill's attack of the drug problem from both the demand side and the supply side represents a long-awaited, comprehensive national policy to attack the drug problem...