Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like federal administrations of late, the medical establishment suffers from a lack of foresight. By essentially offering financial rewards for careers it considers crucial, the medical community cheapens its profession and creates no vital interest in primary care--or in any other form of care, for that matter...
Instead of attacking the problem near the end of students' education, the medical community must continually encourage pre-medical students and beginning medical students to enter vital fields. Major medical schools' trend of accepting only those science majors who have already completed extensive laboratory research--or who have otherwise professed devotion solely to the purely nonclinical side of medicine--will only perpetuate the trend toward sub-specialties. Students shouldn't have to strive to break new ground in cancer or AIDS research even before they receive their M.D.s...
...presenting primary care as a vital and stimulating field, rather than just another way to make money in medicine, the medical establishment can create a new generation of doctors genuinely concerned with health issues and with improving public health. Only by doing so can we cure our ailing health care systems and the doctors who make it work...
...friends and allies in the past. And American companies, such as Motorola, are setting up their own business-intelligence units. "In the new world order," he says, "yesterday's political allies are today's economic competitors." Schweizer foresees a fundamental shift in intelligence priorities. "Business secrets have become more vital than military secrets," he says. "And counting machine tools is now more important than tracking the number of battle tanks...
...vital to reach these students before they eliminate the possibility of a career in science," said Tamarra L. Cadd, a fourth-year graduate student at the Medical School. Cadd is a member of the Boston Area Graduate Students Association steering committee...