Word: physician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country." Thirteen percent of Newark's citizens are on welfare. The city led the nation in serious crimes per 100,000 of population in 1967, and violent crime rose 41% in the first nine months of 1968. Double locks are becoming standard in most dwellings. One physician has been mugged so many times he has hired a professional bodyguard...
...makes the much bewailed "rise in the cost of living" look trivial by comparison. While the cost of staying alive in America has jumped some 21 per cent since 1960, the cost of staying alive in a hospital has zoomed up by nearly 125 per cent. Drugs an physician's services haven't quite kept pace, but they have both risen by about 45 per cent in the last ten years...
...hope they'll come in regularly, get to know their Physician well," he says. When people join the plan, they will have a thorough examination. In the unstructured way that most Americans guard their health, five or ten years may elapse between exams. Under the health plan, however, the aim will be on constantly-supervised care. The initial exam--accompanied by a barrage of "screening test"--may be able to pick up many potential problems long before they erupt. From the beginning, health plan physicians will emphasize nipping illness while it's easy to nip instead of waiting...
...surprised and concerned at your shallow, poorly researched and uninformed article on U.S. medicine. You have alternately, almost schizophrenically, represented the U.S. doctor as dedicated, ingenious, overworked and harassed, while at the same time suggesting that he is grasping, incompetent and unconcerned with his patients' needs. Physicians' fees have risen, but not out of proportion with the cost of living. Their disproportionate increase in income in recent years is due in large part to a massive increase in their patient load. This is due to rising population, Medicare, Medicaid, and, most importantly, to increasing patient respect and confidence...
Agitation in Britain for liberalization resulted in bitter debates in both houses of Parliament in 1966 and 1967. The debate culminated last year in the passage of an act that permitted a registered physician to perform an abortion, provided that at least one other physician concurred in his judgment, on any one of three conditions...