Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McNamara believes the main reason for helping struggling countries is not self-interested economics. Said he: "The fundamental case is the moral one. The whole of human history has recognized the principle that the rich and powerful have a moral obligation to assist the poor and the weak. That is what the sense of community is all about-any community: the community of the family, the community of the nation, the community of nations itself...
...Relman adds, "I think in this whole series of court cases, doctors have been made more cautious, and that is not necessarily a good thing." He adds that "the emphasis is in the wrong place here." He feels courts can play a role in ensuring that doctors act responsibly, by maintaining high standards in performance and education. "Doctors are the people whom society ought to be able to count on to consider the welfare of the patient. And if not, they ought to be held accountable," Relman says...
Herrnstein said he saw changing the department's status to that of a committee as unlikely, "since the Faculty as a whole would have to vote to eliminate the department...
Carter and HEW Secretary Joseph Califano are betting that Bromberg is wrong about a complacent public. Indeed, many members of Congress are feeling so much heat from constituents that they are also seriously beginning to consider a long-range, broad solution to the whole problem of high health care costs. A surprising total of 21 bills
...agree with the Boston physician who observes: "It has all but relieved us of doing angiograms or putting air into people's brains. Both of those had an element of risk and were not nearly so accurate as the CAT." But when it comes to the usefulness of whole body scanning there is considerably more disagreement, even though evidence is mounting in the machine's favor. Another important question is how many of the devices the country needs, and can afford...