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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They want her to die. They want her to die now." An overworked intern admits Mary Berquam, a little girl with leukemia, to the pediatrics ward of a university hospital to die. But the resident, McMillan, overrules her father's demand to let her die in peace. "I had no time for goofy parents," recalls the intern. Enter the cold, stern hematology chief, Prader. He persuades the Ber-quams to have Mary treated for the sake of scientific research. Mary's condition seems to improve...
...about penicillin!" one doctor responds. "Talking to parents or patients was not our thing," the intern muses. "We were not very good with death." A nurse agrees: "You're all so smug and self-centered and unapproachable...
...being heroic?" he asks. "Don't you think enough is ever enough?" Says the resident: "There is no reason not to use everything we have," and he challenges Prader to "turn off the respirator" if he does not agree. Prader replies, "We don't kill patients." The intern pulls the plug and Mary dies...
Despite that, New York's First National City Bank is one of the most successful organizations when it comes to hiring M.B.A.s. It employs a recruiting staff of 19 and has an extensive summer-intern program. After signing up students for summer jobs the year before they graduate, Citibank executives spend as much time selling the bank to the interns as they do evaluating their abilities. Says Marni Gislason, an intern from Harvard: "The program is very effective. You run into these surprisingly young M.B.A.s who have literally flown up in the ranks of the bank. They really believe...
...measures were justified only when a "clear and present danger" existed. By such a definition, Franklin Roosevelt clearly had good reason to authorize the use of wiretaps in 1940 in matters involving "the defense of the nation." But his decision in the early days of World War II to intern 110,000 people in the U.S. only on the ground that they were of Japanese origin was obviously unjustified...