Word: patients
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feminist movement and caught up in the medical advances of the past generation, most of the nation's 1 million registered nurses are no longer content to be self-effacing Florence Nightingales. They are demanding better pay (current average: $13,000 a year), a stronger voice in patient care and, above all, freedom from what they consider the dominating attitude of doctors. Says Connie Curran, associate dean of nursing at the University of San Francisco: "Nurses are refusing to do the cleaning up after physicians; they're refusing to play the old male-female game...
...such as counseling, educating and comforting. In their view, hospitals are too bureaucratic to allow true nursing. Says Nurse Annette Swackhamer of New York City: "Doctors have the misconception that nursing is physical care." In fact, she says, the frenetic hospital milieu does not let nurses listen to a patient much or involve the family...
...earth more elevated and pure than that of a learned and upright judge. He exerts an influence like the dews of heaven falling without observation," said Daniel Webster, no doubt casting his eyes heavenward. Definitions of a good judge read like recommendations for sainthood: compassionate yet firm, at once patient and decisive, all wise and upstanding...
...HCHP physicians are salaried and do not charge additional fees when a patient is hospitalized, Pyle said. Any monetary incentive to put patients in the hospital is thus removed, he added...
...HCHP physicians can also reduce hospitalization time because its centers provide many hospital services, such as laboratory and x-ray, on an out-patient basis, Pyle said...