Word: cared
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...only families that must decide. Doctors are wondering when, in an era of untamed technology, they should stand back and let their patients die -- or even help death along. Economists are calculating a sort of social triage: at a time when infant mortality is scandalously high and public health - care is a shambles, does it make sense for taxpayers to spend tens of thousands of dollars a year to keep each unconscious patient alive? Lawmakers are struggling with how to draft laws carefully enough to protect life while respecting individual choice. Theologians are debating how sacred life...
...basic premise of medicine that doctors should be healers and care givers; that they must work for their patients' well-being; that if they cannot cure, they should at least do no harm. When they took their Hippocratic oath, they promised, "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel . . ." But the plight of the incurably ill has challenged all these premises and left doctors and nurses deeply divided over their duties to the dying...
Which brings us back to the Harvard study's findings. Light is correct; professors don't have a natural aversion to students. The problem isn't that they don't want to see us; it's that they've been taught not to care. Teaching is pure pedagogy--get it over with, and get on with your important work...
...Holly R. Zellweger '90 said she feared that students might no longer care as much about the final clubs. "It seemed like last year there was a lot of campus concern, but I'm not sure how people will react now," said Zellweger, who helped found Zealots In Protest, a group that distributed anti-final club propaganda last year...
...Only a few professional protesters care any more and they make an issue out of anything," said one student, who wished to remain anonymous...