Word: sicker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the growing array of plug-in appliances in the average U.S. home, the danger of electrical shock is considerable. In hospitals, the hazard is often far greater. And the sicker the patient is, the greater the danger, for he is likely to be wired to a battery of electronic monitoring and assistance devices. Yet while most household devices from irons and toasters to dishwashers come with a little tag reading "UL [for Underwriters' Laboratories] Approved," there is no comparable standard of approval for hospital equipment...
...angry liberals pressed them hard enough, the plan's administrators could come up with reasonable excuses for including so many affluent patients at a time when the poor are sicker and more desperate. Other health plans, Pollack might say, are famous for their "social conscience," and only 10 per cent of their patients are poor. So if the Harvard plan takes 20 per cent of its patients form Roxbury it must be twice as socially concerned...
...there is an every increasing obstacle in the way of all this happiness. As America sinks deeper into its illness, it is becoming more and more difficult to keep a step ahead of it. It is necessary to be sicker than Mencken was 40 years ago, sicker then Lenny Bruce was ten years ago, sicker than Philip Roth was last week...
...associate professorship, then obtained funds from the OEO. Says Geiger: "We have known for a long time about the relationships between poverty and health without fully facing up to them. The poor are likelier to be sick. The sick are likelier to be poor. Without intervention, the poor get sicker and the sick get poorer...
...Sicker at Birth. The campaign to improve the lot of black doctors is not simply a matter of matching numbers, status symbols, ego satisfaction, or even the doctor's self-image, which is a vital factor in his ability to practice confidently and well. Health and medical care are as essential to the Negro's joining the mainstream of American life as are education and job opportunities. Indeed health may be more fundamental, and Negroes are sicker than whites from womb to tomb-their infant-mortality rate is double that of whites. A child can learn little, even...