Word: watchdogging
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...hospitals where surgery is performed, perhaps 4,500 have a watchdog peer review or "tissue committee." If an undue proportion of the organs removed by a surgeon are found healthy, he gets rapped over the knuckles and is expected to reform. But too many tissue committees are far too lenient. Knowing the imprecision of medicine and their own fallibility, the members are apt to say "There but for the grace of God go I," and let the matter drop...
...lack of an effective Republican presence in Cambridge hurts both those who seek strong alternatives on issues and an effective partisan watchdog. But there have been some recent glimmers of life in the Cambridge GOP. The Democrat/Republican margin in the last three presidential elections has narrowed: 10 to 1 in 1964, 5 to 1 in 1968, and 3 to 1 in 1972. One fourth of the current Harvard freshman class has indicated some interest in joining the Harvard Republican Club. The club now has a community action chairman, and some of its members worked with Cambridge Republicans on State Senator...
...nominate for Man of the Year the watchdog of the public trust, Jack Anderson. He deserves to be recognized for insisting upon honesty in Government and public service...
...Agnew's affair [Oct. 22] clearly showed the importance of the watchdog function of a free press in a democratic society. Congratulations for your action...
...James Ramey and Milton Shaw. Ramey, an AEC commissioner since 1962, was the liaison man with Congress. Shaw, director of reactor development and technology, was the supertechnocrat who got things done. Because of their persuasive lobbying, the Senate-House Committee on Atomic Energy, originally set up to be a watchdog group, never seriously cut the AEC'S budget or curbed its plans...