Word: physician
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Already there are private physician labor unions in about half the states, and some American Medical Association delegates want the national organization to study the possibilities and take a stand. There are major hurdles. First, of course, not all doctors agree. And second, there are some questions of definition. Many doctors operate as independent providers -- not as employees -- and for them, banding together could pose antitrust problems. "But doctors have many grievances," says TIME health reporter Janice Horowitz, and banding together may be the only way to address them. In this regard, notes Horowitz, doctors may be following...
Even for those students who know they want acareer in a profession such as law or medicine,however, the timing of professional school isstill a question requiring some thought. For Tye,who estimates she will be almost 30 years oldbefore she is a practicing physician, her year offafter college will help, rather than hinder, hercareer...
Jackson--the only black physician in town and the last hope for the boy's parents--treated the child but said he did not expect the boy to live out the week...
...could have gone anywhere as a young physician," Durham says, "but he chose Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, which is primarily a hispanic-serving institution where most people consider an urban ghetto...
There are worse consequences in the Balkans. Peacekeeping by means of smart bombs that now and then drop down hospital chimneys breeds contradictions. The physician's--and presumably the peacekeeper's--principle, "First, do no harm," loses to the general's "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs." Everyone expects mistakes and stupidities in war; but when you make war by remote control, a superpower ex machina raining destruction without concomitant risk to self, then your invulnerability (the arrogance of powers unwilling to pay war's reciprocal price in blood) tends to subvert the moral basis...