To the editors: Bravo to Bryan Miller for her excellent article, “Why Are Doctors Such Jerks?” [July 10]. Miller’s article is subtitled “And what is the medical establishment doing about it?” Instead of waiting for the medical establishment to act, I suggest that there are some things the rest of us can begin doing right […]
Author Archives: Alida M. Jatich
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The Monster of the Midway
To the editors: I read with interest Michael Miner’s article “The Squib Heard Round the World” [Hot Type, March 15] in which he described how the “fallout” from his brief Bettelheim obituary led to the dismantling of the man’s reputation. “To our amazement,” he writes, “our casual little paragraph had more of an effect than […]
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Bettelheim’s Blues
To the editors: Thank you for printing the numerous letters concerning the late Dr. Bruno Bettelheim and the Orthogenic School [April 6 and 20; May 4, 11, and 25; June 8 and 15]. I feel that the letter from ex-staffer Stephen T. Herczeg needs an answer. No one else has specifically responded to the statements […]
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Religious Intolerance
To the editors: After reading Grant Pick’s overly sympathetic article about the religious leafleteers, “This Could Be Your Last 5 Minutes Alive!” (Oct. 14), I’d like to speak up for the “heathens.” To begin with, how dare these people accost me in public to tell me that I am going to burn in hell because […]