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Many people in the city planning profession would tell him to hire some bright young graduates from the Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) of Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD). But many others would insist he avoid that institution altogether. "They teach you economic analysis, not city...
Both the courts and the doctors have always had a stake in protecting and preserving people's lives. Their competing claims to being the ultimate guardians of life sparked into conflict over the Saikewicz case. Doctors maintained the case simply involved a medical question, and it would be a dangerous...
But Stone added that doctors misinterpreted the Saikewicz decision: "The way Saikewicz was read by the medical profession was that they had to go full steam ahead in keeping people alive." He says that it is "inevitable" and "appropriate" that cases will now arise narrowing the applicability of the Saikewicz...
In the U.S., the Carter Administration's immediate proposal is a bill imposing mandatory controls if the medical profession does not clamp down itself. Government interference is, of course, anathema to hospital officials and doctors. Michael Bromberg, executive director of the Federation of American Hospitals, claims that the public "doesn...
Beyond the politicians' remedies, there are more immediate, if less comprehensive steps that the profession and the various insurance plans already in force could take to control costs.