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...amenities of professional intercourse, and the obligations of medical men toward each other and the public, were perhaps better observed in 1850 than now. Then the doctor, next to the minister, was the trusted friend and counselor of every family to whom he ministered. He shared their joys, soothed their sorrows, and every passing year added to and cemented the attachment and affection between them. Now the doctor is regarded more in the light of a tradesman or mechanic, and is employed from the same consideration that a grocer, tailor or shoemaker is. The strong ties of gratitude and affection...
Sir: TIME deserves high praise for devoting a cover story to college teachers [May 6]. This recognition is what the noble profession of teaching needs today, when our preoccupation with large numbers tends to crowd out our traditional concern for the individual student.
...adversary system requires a lawyer to lie or permit his client to lie in court. No lawyer worthy of the profession will do it. Freedman's view that the lawyer is obligated to permit his client to lie if his client wants to strips the lawyer of all professional claims and presents the lawyer in the distorted but popular image of the "mouthpiece...
The fact that Ed School students are always had so much to say about what is happening to them arises in part from the kinds of people who suppose the HGSE student body. Some are flip about education, and some are very serious, but practically all of them come to...
In a word, the U.S. medical profession is trying hard to get back to a principle as old as Hippocrates'; it is rediscovering that there is still healing power in the laying on of hands. In an area where the stakes are life and death, but where the modern...