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The omission of Dr. Arif Hussain's criminal background raises questions beyond those of medical ethics. By showing themselves more willing to bail out a friend than to obey the moral rules of their profession, the doctors called into question the legitimate uses of influence and revealed the kind of...
But an issue of this magnitude should not be abandoned to the prevailing winds. The negligence shown by the four recommending doctors was morally unjustifiable and neither their friendship with Hussain nor the probable negligence of Buffalo Children's Hospital should exonerate them. We urge both Harvard and the Massachusetts...
Finally, both the hospital where the doctors work and the university where they teach must take action to make sure that these abuses will not occur in the future. President Bok, to his credit, has taken the initiative and asked the Medical School faculty to draw up guidelines to prevent...
PSYCHOANALYSIS: THE IMPOSSIBLE PROFESSION by Janet Malcolm; Knopf; 174 pages; $9.95
For these reasons alone, one would have to agree with Janet Malcolm, a staff writer for The New Yorker, that psychoanalysis is "the impossible profession." Her artful, illuminating survey of the field suggests an even stronger reason. After decades of popularizations and spinoffs, the talking cure appears to have trivialized...