Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Naturally, such a revamped job description means more responsibility -- and more respect. Nurses are often the first to spot trouble, make sense of a patient's confusing symptoms or suggest a needed change in treatment. Yet acting on such observations has traditionally been the physician's purview. R.N.s must become full-fledged members of the team and be expected to engage ! in the medical give-and-take about patients' well-being. That role is never in doubt on the AIDS ward at Sherman Oaks Community Hospital, where doctors and nurses find themselves depending on one another to battle the deadly...
Unless drugs are attacked at every level, the U.S. may continue to flail at the problem. With a touch of sarcasm and a call for much stronger action on all drug fronts, including education, treatment and enforcement, Sterling Johnson, a special narcotics prosecutor in New York City, declared sadly, "If we are winning the war on drugs, every American better just pray each night that we don't lose...
...CCSR, which establishes and implements portfolio guidelines and votes proxies for the Harvard Management Company, wrote in the report that Harvard supports "practices such as those outlined in the Sullivan Principles, designed to provide equitable treatment for black and white workers...and strong support for the black community of which the company is a part...
...beatings by Israeli soldiers of Palestinians whose protesting does not justify such treatment. Since you hear about this every day, you conclude that it is the norm and that Israelis in general are behaving immorally. I see more. I see Israeli TV reporters appoaching on-duty soldiers, who say that the army should not be in the West Bank and Gaza at all; I see passionate outrage by soldiers and civilians in response to reports of brutality; I see the growth in recent weeks of both secular and religious peace movements. And I see a growing weariness among many Israelis...
...slap-on-the-wrist penance package infuriated many national Assemblies leaders and church folk in general, who clogged the Springfield switchboard with calls protesting the special treatment. After all, until church law was changed in 1973, a clergyman who made such a confession would have been expelled for two years, though most left for good. Even under today's more lenient rules, it is unprecedented for an Assemblies minister caught in a sex scandal to be barred from the pulpit for less than a year. Headquarters was also perturbed that the Louisiana district had announced its plan publicly rather than...