Word: worke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...took Francis Coppola $30 million and almost four years to finish Apocalypse Now. The answer, it turns out, is not nearly so mysterious as one might suppose. Coppola delayed the completion of his Viet Nam film for the simple reason that he could not bring off the grand work he so badly wanted to make. He tinkered right to the end-long after a lesser director would have cut his losses-but his movie remains a collection of footage. While much of the footage is breathtaking, Apocalypse Now is emotionally obtuse and intellectually empty. It is not so much...
Much time is spent on an eye exercise in which Bo-and-Peepers concentrate on a single object for up to an hour. They are "out of orbit" (i.e., exempt from the twelve-minute work cycles) for this, and for lectures by Bo and Peep. The Two proclaim that Bo has been Jesus, Elijah and Moses in his former lives. The spacecraft is imminently expected. It will carry believers to an enigmatic "garden" where they will get "energy" from their coequal, the King of Kings, alias Chief of Chiefs, the god who created planet earth. Believers will live eternally...
Some nurses have found that one route to better pay, to say nothing of avoiding drastically shifting hours, is to work only on a temporary basis, hiring out to hospitals through agencies. In California alone, there are about 800 such agencies; their popularity has created serious shortages among regular hospital nursing staffs. Pay at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, for example, is $93 a day (after agency fees) for a temporary vs. $64 for a staff member...
...working conditions are not nurses' only concern. They want professional advancement. Nursing has long had such specialists as the nurse-midwife and the nurse-anesthetist who assisted at surgery. But since the 1970s, the trend toward specialization has accelerated. Many more nurses are devoting themselves exclusively to coronary care, renal dialysis, burns, neonatal care, cancer, psychiatry, pediatrics, respiratory disease and geriatrics. Called nurse practitioners, they number about 15,000. Some work closely with doctors in special units of hospitals or in offices. Others, particularly in rural areas, where physicians are scarce, practice virtually on their own: for example, Eleanora...
...editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, explains: "The risk'of [using] nurse practitioners or any other kind of nonphysician is that they do not have a broad and deep enough training to be aware of what they don't know. Nurses and doctors ought to work together as a team, but I am concerned about the idea of a team without a team captain." For the patient, says Relman, the important issue is always "am I getting the best possible care?" It is also a question for those who will have to deliver that care...