Political Doldrums
- 23 March 1978
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 298 (12) , 691-692
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197803232981219
Abstract
Since, as someone long ago observed, the business of the press is fights and forecasts, the medical profession might easily assume that Washington rings with controversies concerning health care and related matters. There is an impressive yardage of clippings to support that impression.But the fact of the matter is that a somnolence that recalls the Eisenhower era currently envelops Washington. The big difference between now and then, however, is that the father-figure general was in harmony with his time, whereas the activist engineer incumbent simply grates the capital's power structure.Mr. Carter's problem is that there are no big . . .Keywords
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