Ms Reid acted throughout with propriety and professionalism.
Re "At Bedside, Stay Stoic or Display Emotions?" (Essay, April 22): Dr. Barron H. Lerner writes that health professionals now "debate among themselves the propriety of emotional displays" with patients and describes the difficulty doctors face in differentiating their patients who would appreciate "physical contact or tears" from those who would not.
And some people in the chip industry have questioned the propriety of the couple's professional relationship, with Mr. Smith's nonprofit group sending business to Ms. Hawes's firm, a criticism Mr. Smith describes as yet another effort to discredit their work.
After many years in Europe, Mary Louisa and Julia returned to Newport in old age, with Julia producing sketchbooks full of expert watercolors but declining, for propriety's sake, to pursue a professional career as an artist.
Although radical abdominal hysterectomy was "running the gauntlet of an animated professional criticism" in the early 1900s, few gynecologists questioned the propriety of surgical treatment.
We can get into each other's business, personal or professional, restrained only by individual and unregulated ideas of politesse and propriety.
Freed from the decorum and propriety that constrained the wives and daughters of their lovers, these professional beauties confirmed their desirability and allure through the stature of their conquests and, in no small part, the stylishness of their dress.
Yet while health professionals — not only physicians but also nurses and social workers — may debate among themselves the propriety of emotional displays, what probably matters most is what patients think.
In determining the propriety of any specific procedure or test, the clinician and laboratory should apply their own professional judgement to the specific clinical circumstances presented by the individual patient or specimen.
