Medical Care Malpractice Suits Add To High Costs
Malpractice lawsuits filed by patients against doctors raise medical costs in the United States. Insurance premiums for doctors surged, with one in six of the 309,900 doctors sued or being sued. Last year $75 million paid in malpractice premiums. about $13 million awarded to patients in 1968. lawsuits and higher awards push up hospital liability costs and affect overall care prices.
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Tisus
Bernard D. Hirsh
American Medical Assation
William F. Martin
New York
National Medicalegal
Las Vegas
Insurance Information Institute
Institute
Montana
Ohio
Vermont
New Hampshire
Oregon
RYN
Ae Ioas
Martin
Florida
California
New Mexico
American Medical Association
Pope Paul ends mass experimentation and allows lay roles
Pope Paul VI ordered an end to further mass experimentation and issued the Missale Romanum. The decree preserves a wide range of Mass options and ends the centuries old rule requiring women to cover their heads. It consolidates changes from the Vatican II era and clarifies no further major edits beyond the new Missal.
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Paul VI
Vatican
Paul the Apostle
Tracks To Be Repaired On Main Street Biddeford
Regular travelers on upper Main Street, Biddeford, will need alternate routes on Monday and Tuesday next week. Main Street will close at the railroad tracks from 7 a.m. Monday to Tuesday night for essential track repairs, per Street Commissioner Richard Potvin.
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Main Street
Biddeford
Richard Potvin
France Sets June 1 Date for First Round in Gaullist Succession
Paris AP reports the French cabinet fixed June 1 for the first round of voting to name Charles de Gaulle's successor. If no majority, a June 15 runoff between two rivals. Georges Pompidou leads for the Gaullists. multiple candidates from Socialists and Communists expected. petitions due by midnight May 13. campaign to open May 1.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Georges Pompidou
Gaullists
State School Subsidies Woefully Inadequate
Gov Curtis criticized the $11.3 million rise in Maine state school subsidies for 1969-71 as woefully inadequate, warning it would force higher local property taxes or curtail programs. He urged a $21 million two year increase and lamented tax pressure on fixed incomes, urging urgent action to avoid injustice.
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CRONO
Curtis
Legislative Appropriations
Elementary School Principals Association
Association
University of Maine
Maine
John L. Martin
D-Eagie Lake
Dunn
Rebels Within Labour Plot to Oust Wilson in Britain
AP reports Labour party insiders plot to replace Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Former cabinet ministers and backbench MPs discuss a no confidence move over Wilson's summer anti strike laws. Trade unions oppose the bills. Continued on page three.
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London
Labor Party
Harold Wilson
Wilson
House of Commons
Commons
Cigarette Advertising Under Review by TV Board
Washington AP The television industry ended a congressional hearing on smoking and health with NAB stating cigarette advertising remains under continuing review and no further action is needed now. The FTC FCC and states seek tougher warnings and bans. industry bets on preemption. Boston Globe ends cigarette ads.
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Television Review Board
National Association of Broadcasters
NAB
House Commerce Committee
Robert B. Meyner
Federal
Ade Commission
FTC
Federal Communications Commission
Congress
Tobacco Industry
Geert
P 5
Meyner
Harley O. Staggers
Dww
Boston Globe
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