Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...panel that drafted the report has been bold, sensible, and objective in its criticism of both the universities and the government for what it feels is "an artificial and fundamentally wrong division between teaching and research." The statemest is a careful analysis and a useful guide...
...California's joint Alameda-Contra Costa Counties Medical Society, just across the bay from San Francisco, have a successful, 15-year-old malpractice review program that has been copied in eight other states. Its motto: "We fight when we're right and pay when we're wrong." Patients' complaints are studied by a board of 15 doctors and one clergy man. If the committee decides a malpractice complaint is justified, the medical society's insurer-American Mutual Liability Insurance Co.-is obligated to set tie with the plaintiff. Largest out-of-court settlement...
...become careful, and even ultracautious, about the kind of medicine they practice. The results: higher costs and-in certain cases-poorer medical care. Some anesthesiologists now shy away from medically advisable spinals, because the public imagines them to be dangerous and is thus prone to sue if anything goes wrong. Some internists order superfluous, expensive diagnostic tests and X rays, to cover themselves against lawsuits from every angle. Many general practitioners no longer will dispense telephone advice or permit prescription refills. Suit-shy surgeons, says a San Francisco doctor, have become "frankly reluctant to try radical things-which might...
...letters merely advisory exhortations. In that case, if the voter has considered carefully and acted in good faith, he can be held sinless in respect to the vote. A top Vatican official explained the fine distinction: "Bishops are mortals and can be mistaken. And if the bishops are wrong in this case, then the voter in good faith has not sinned by voting, but he has sinned in disobeying his bishop...
...Bensinger went to work to develop an automatic pin setter of his own. Brunswick had experimented for years with automatic pin setters, but decided they were too expensive to produce-until A.M.F. proved this judgment wrong. So Bensinger organized a crash program, in 18 months put Brunswick's machine on the market...