Abstract
Doctors, lawyers, architects, and other professionals strike a bargain with society: Leave us alone, they say, and we will take care of you ...
But do professionals warrant the trust placed in their hands?
Headlines shout of bridges and buildings toppling. Health care cost escalate. Our children compare poorly in knowledge of science, math, and foreign languages with those of other countries. Malpractice suits skyrocket. Greed corrupts Wall Street. America has lost the industrial muscle that was once the envy of the world.
Has our army of experts, whom we entrust to take care of us, let us down?
Or, on the other hand, have we let them down, shackling them in regulation, keeping them from doing their jobs, impeding them in the free exercise of their expertise?
- Copyright © 1989 by the American Academy of Pediatrics
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