Word: physician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...society, is it any wonder that medicine is over consumed? In an impersonal society, is it to be expected that medicine will be thoroughly personal? If the poor are not as well treated medically as the wealthy, are they not also badly treated in every other way? If the physician makes a good income, is he not merely doing something that is praised in every other line of endeavor? Where technological ability has far exceeded the wisdom to use technology in the common interest, is it cause for wonder that medicine concentrates on the esoteric rather than the mundane...
...American physician I object strongly to the one-sided vision you and most Americans have of American medicine. I object to the implication that the A.M.A. consists mainly of money-hungry gnomes growing fat on the infirmity of others. I object to the implication that most American hospitals are shabbily administered barns where mature, gentle, understanding, heroic people are pricked, poked, herded and harassed practically against their will with almost no regard for their psychological and emotional needs. It just isn't so. But why this overreaction...
...reputed income of $1,500 a day. His establishment includes an eight-room apartment, five reception rooms, and two secretaries. Substantial success is common among Italy's wizards, who offer their clients counsel, clairvoyance and, at higher fees, "the art of magnetic fluids," said by 18th century German Physician Friedrich Mesmer to circulate in the universe, available for good or evil. Nearly every village has its specialist in the occult, and the Magician of Mon-tefredane, a small town near Naples, was wizard enough to get himself elected mayor. Occasionally, the magnetism goes too far, as in the case...
...style, unscientific family doctor. The American Medical Association, long the champion of improved medical practice, lost sight of the patient. It developed certain obsessions, seeing threats to its own and to every doctor's existence or financial well-being on every side. Among A.M.A. fetishes are "free choice of physician" and "fee for service...
...When a physician enters his office, his identity is immediately ratified by the tools of Hygeia that surround him. There are also the parchments on the wall to reassure him that "Dr." is part of his name. By contrast, a novelist may have a few of his books on the shelf (unlike the physician, the writer cannot bury his mistakes), but when he goes to work he is greeted by the gaping anonymity of blank paper. More than most working people, the professional writer of fiction must constantly create himself out of himself if he is to know...