Word: international
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...INTERN by Doctor X. 404 pages. Harper...
Some readers will depart these pages vowing to die rather than set foot in another hospital. Many of Dr. X's glimpses of what goes on there are indeed horrifying. An obstetrician funks a difficult delivery, leaving it up to the intern, who has never presided over any birth at all, much less a critical one. An addicted nurse steals morphine from her patients. A surgeon carelessly ties off the wrong artery in a simple operation; gangrene sets in and the patient not only loses her leg but is charged $3,000 in hospitalization and extra surgery charges resulting...
...convenes for a no-holds-barred critique of its own performance. "I wonder how many laymen," writes Dr. X, "ever even dream that 60 of the city's doctors gather voluntarily for the sole purpose of keeping themselves sharp and on their toes?" For every lapse of skill, Intern cites ten occasions where a brilliant diagnosis, or a skillful stroke of the scalpel, frustrated man's ultimate enemy...
...spokesman for Massachusetts Political Action for Peace said yesterday that 25 college and graduate students, including 15 from Harvard, had joined a PAX-sponsored intern program with the Massachusetts Legislature...
...declared businesses themselves are at fault for losing interested graduates to other fields. "Some firms recruit students for summer internships and then let them sit around without any work to do," he said. Businesses must upgrade their recruiting and intern programs if they are to attract the most qualified graduates...