Word: doctoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles' Salvation Army divisions, which is housed in a former Ford factory, accepted eleven gift cars one week, including a 1941 Cadillac and a 1970 Coupe de Ville with power steering, power windows and power brakes. The latter was owned by a middle-aged doctor, who walked in one morning and asked General Supervisor Richard Hilt: "Do you want this car?" Recalled Hilt: "When I said yes, he gave me the keys and a check...
SURGE OF SERVICES They now account for 46% of G.N.P., up from 31% in 1950. It is harder to increase the productivity of a doctor, policeman, barber or bureaucrat than an assembly-line worker...
There is just no comparison. 1978 was apocalypse. 1979 is a cool, professional, jackhammer-steady attack, conducted on blackboards, in doctor's officer, in meditation. No past and no future. No Sen. Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass) strutting his proud nose in the Senate and announcing to his esteemed intoxicated colleagues that "there will be no more pennant race in 1977." The next fall, Brooke watched the local newspapers proclaim the story of his divorce all over their front pages; he watched Sen. Paul Tsongas eak him out of a Senate seat, and he saw the Yankees win the World...
...from angina, a severe chest pain related to heart disease. He found that when physicians were initially enthusiastic about a remedy, even if it later proved worthless by ordinary medical definition, it acted as a placebo in about 80% of all cases. Conversely, Benson says, flaws in the patient-doctor relationship may account for some of the equally puzzling unpleasant effects, including nausea, dizziness and pain itself, experienced by some people who have taken placebos...
...Though doctors have long used placebos to appease patients eager for a drug, even when none is indicated, the practice has lately come under question, most recently in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association. At a time when patients are demanding more candor, many physicians are asking themselves whether they should prescribe deceptively. Other doubts have also been raised. In a study of 60 physicians and 39 nurses at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Drs. James and Jean Goodwin and Albert Vogel found that the majority gave placebos to patients they disliked, considered...