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Because surgeons' work is more tangible and precise, surgery was the first area of medicine to come under critical scrutiny. For a half-century, the American College of Surgeons has condemned operations by insufficiently qualified surgeons, fee splitting between surgeons and the physicians who send them patients, and needless surgery. But while the college's professed policies are unimpeachably correct, effectiveness and enforcement are another matter. The college expels few of its errant members and does not publish the names of those expelled. Even after expulsion, a doctor can continue to practice "cut more, make more" surgery until...
...experiment of issuing MacDonald in hardback (The Turquoise Lament) is not progress. Few artifacts are as needless as hardback crime stories. Still, those who lose a day from their lives whenever a new McGee mystery appears will no doubt continue to do so. (The McGee series has sold more than 14 million paperback volumes, and MacDonald's income has been estimated at $100,000 a year.) To understand why, consider the portrait on the covers of the new novels. Each cover shows a view of the formidable McGee, leathery, curly-haired and, say, a rugged...
...boring women imaginable. Elena marries Howe and later takes Morrissey as a lover. Kidnaped and brutalized by her divorced father as a child, she is emotionally inert. As a woman she seems less unhappy than confused. Her customary response to a direct question is "I don't know." Needless to say, she is enigmatically beautiful...
...This is needless, because the music--tasteful, impeccable country music--is tribute enough, not only to Bob Wills, Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers, but to Merle Haggard. On one live album, Haggard introduces one of his own songs, saying abashedly, "Maybe someday they'll say, 'this is an old Merle Haggard number'". And when he launches into the sad, sad white blues, it's a voice from another time...
Only a chain restaurant like La Crepe would promenade its waitresses in French costume and headdress to impersonate an intimate cafe. The effort, needless to say, fails miserably...