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Much of the organized medical profession, including the American Academy of Family Physicians, has opposed most midwifery for a variety of reasons. Among them: the difficulty in regulating midwife procedures, the belief that women get better basic care in hospitals and the fact that many deliveries may require aid that...
There are always dangers in childbirth, and clearly, in the event of an unexpected medical crisis, both mother and baby are safer with immediate access to hospital facilities. Still, if money talks, and it usually does, the use of properly trained midwives is a service that U.S. medicine and U.S...
Before he came along, publishing was a gentleman's profession, and books were sold with dignity and decorum, like vintage antiques or old-master drawings. But Bennett Cerf s ego was a volume in itself, and he hawked his wares as if he were conducting the 1812 Overture-with...
Much of the criticism centers on the bar's bible for self-regulation, the Code of Professional Responsibility. In defining a lawyer's duty to his client and the law, the code manages to be vague, rigid, complex and contradictory-all at the same time. "So long as its practitioners are guided by these principles," the code proclaims, "the law will continue to be a noble profession." But Illinois Law Professor Thomas D. Morgan, writing in the Harvard Law Review, found that virtually every section of the code serves lawyers first, protecting them from public criticism and increasing...
Many experts believe, however, that the two big factors for change-competitive pricing and prepaid systems-will provide a momentum of their own. "There will be a lot more services provided, but many aspects of the profession will be downgraded," says one. "There will be legal clinics where one guy...