Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...A.M.A. adopts sweeping changes in its ethics code...
...health insurance. But lately the old club is becoming more relaxed. The latest sign of change came at the organization's annual meeting in Chicago last week. By an overwhelming margin, the A.M.A.'s 279-member legislative body, the house of delegates, approved sweeping revisions in the code of ethics that tells doctors how to conduct their practices...
...Strengthening the confidentiality of the physician-patient relationship, and calling for stronger self-policing in weeding out unethical and incompetent colleagues. Says Dr. James Todd, a Ridgewood, N.J., surgeon who headed the code-revision committee: "A lot of physicians don't like to concede that there are incompetent doctors. But we all know that there are incompetent people in any profession...
...worthy from the unwashed is wealth. Miamians will go to great lengths to show off their wealth: It is a city of huge diamonds, Cadillacs and 80-foot yachts. California may be the birthplace of the "me generation" and Boston may have its Puritan ethic, but Miami's code demands conspicuous consumption...
Thankfully, the blue-blood code dominating tennis is slowly fading. "Rude" players are still contemptuously labelled brattish, but there are many more brats than before--as well there should be, if being a brat means pointing out when the officials are fouling up great and exciting matches with incompetence. It is even all right, it seems to me, to get mad at an opponent; in other sports, this is called "psyching up" and encouraged, but in tennis it is called ungentlemanly. Those Americans who realize that a backboard is but three feet wide will never love the sport as long...