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At the heart of Presumed Innocent is a murder trial, its intricate arabesques portrayed in breathtaking detail, in which the defendant is almost -- almost -- certainly not the guilty party. The Burden of Proof offers a hero, Alejandro ("Sandy") Stern, the brilliant attorney who defended the accused narrator of Presumed Innocent...
Along with shrinking welfare benefits have come shrinking imaginations. That's why so many of us deal with the prospect of entering the wide world by postponing it. For the masses of law school entrants racked with guilt over their chosen profession, talking vaguely about the public interest can assuage...
The editor of the New England Journal of Medicine told the Class of 1990's Phi Beta Kappa members yesterday that the increasing commercialization of medicine is compromising the ethics which used to govern the profession.
But in the last two decades, the growth of the biomedical industry has made health care more commercial, and doctors have become more competitive as specialization within the profession increased, Relman said.
The federal government has encouraged this free-market approach to medicine, Relman said. In 1975, the Supreme Court declared antitrust laws applicable to the medical profession, encouraging competition among physicians, he said.