Word: generality
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Enormous Cost. To some degree, the increase in malpractice suits is a byproduct of medical progress. "The success of modern medicine has led many people to expect the perfect result all the time," says A.M.A. General Counsel Bernard Hirsh. "When they don't get the perfect result, they consider it negligence." Others blame the increase on a health care system that takes the patient out of the hands of a family doctor and places him in those of a specialized stranger. They point out that while people rarely sue physicians they know and trust, they often sue specialists...
...insurance company has made a profit on malpractice coverage since 1958. Many have ceased writing liability policies for physicians. Those still in business have sharply raised their rates. The insurance group that formerly covered 11,000 Southern California physicians doubled its average premiums last year; thus a general surgeon who had been paying $1,508 for insurance was obliged to pay $3,140 for the same coverage. Last year surgeons in Utah were paying an average of $3,910, more than 13 times the $294 they paid...
Whose Orders? In theory, permission to spray defoliants in a given area is granted by General Creighton Abrams, the U.S. Commander in Viet Nam, and by Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. In practice, orders for individual defoliation missions are given on a much lower level...
...Episcopalians seem at last to be willing to lower some of their own barriers; last week their General Convention approved the ordination of women deacons (see following story). U.S. Lutherans are removing restrictions against women in the ministry even more rapidly. Last June in Minneapolis, the liberal-leaning Lutheran Church in America became the first U.S. Lutheran body to announce that it would ordain women ministers. Late last week the moderate American Lutheran Church, at its own convention in Texas, did likewise. Indeed, the World Council of Churches recently reported that 70 denominations around the world have admitted women...
...other denominations set the pace in social action. Now, the Episcopal Church is a pacesetter-and in turmoil as a result. The division was nowhere more evident than during the past two weeks in Houston, where the laity and clergy of the Episcopal Church met for their triennial General Convention...