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At Gatling-gun Tempo Word-perfect The First Time Out. The Journalistic Equivalent Of A High-wire Front Somersault Without A Net.

Natural Villains Are Hard To Come By, What With All The Shrinks And Social-scientist Types Threatening To Understand Everybody Into The Ground.

The Rich Plankton Of Pop Heroes And Pop Villains On Which We Americans Are Accustomed To Feed, The Daily Media Soup Of Sports Figures, Ax Murderers, Politicians, And Rock Singers, The Ever-running River Of Celebs, Heavies, And Oddballs That We Use To Spice Up Our Own Relatively Humdrum Lives Has Of Late Become A Very Watery Gruel. Where Have All The Good Guys And Bad Guys Gone? Why Does Everyone Out There Look So Gray?

The Real Trouble With The Doctor Image In America Is That It Has Been Grayed By The Image Of The Doctor-as-businessman, The Doctor-as-bureaucrat, The Doctor-as-medical-robot, And The Doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.

Huge Herds Of Vigorous, Curious, Open-eyed Americans Freely Roaming The World Are, It Seems To Me, Quite Possibly A Vital National Resource Today As At No Other Time In Our History.