self-scrutiny

As health-care costs continue to soar, reaching $2.5 trillion in the U.S. in 2009, medical societies are becoming more open to self-scrutiny for fear that the federal government and private health insurers will make medical decisions for them.

Heart Treatment Overused Ron Winslow 2011

He insisted a culture of self-scrutiny had existed for many years.

Gulf in standards of patient care is too wide, GP practices told 2011

The loss of confidence has resulted in some Hong Kong-listed companies voluntarily undergoing self-scrutiny and some investors taking due-diligence matters into their own hands, said Mr. Dickens.

Exchange Urges Self-Exam by Some China Companies Kate O'Keeffe 2011

"Writing an autobiographical account of middle age is a brave undertaking, necessitating a great deal of self-scrutiny at a time of life when most of us would sooner look the other way and hope for the best."

Book reviews roundup 2011

Munch's belief in self-scrutiny was reinforced when he saw a memorial exhibition of paintings by Vincent van Gogh in Paris in 1891.

David Galenson: Edvard Munch and Personal Art David Galenson 2011

In a scene that's just a shade too pat, too cinematic, too carefully bookended with the adolescent-mirror moment, Dubus realizes that the secret of writing honestly is to quit studying himself and start inhabiting his characters: "Negative self-scrutiny was just another form of insincerity; I had to disappear altogether."

"Townie," a memoir by Andre Dubus III 2011

The show 's generally positive public reception marks the latest stage in an increasingly frank process of national self-scrutiny.

Germany Mounts Hitler Exhibit, a First Marcus Walker 2010

Espen Eichhoefer for The Wall Street Journal The show 's generally positive public reception marks the latest stage in an increasingly frank process of national self-scrutiny.

A Hitler Exhibit in Germany 2010

In a scene that's just a shade too pat, too cinematic, too carefully bookended with the adolescent-mirror moment, Dubus realizes that the secret of writing honestly is to quit studying himself and start inhabiting his characters: "Negative self-scrutiny was just another form of insincerity; I had to disappear altogether."

"Townie," a memoir by Andre Dubus III 2011

Munch's belief in self-scrutiny was reinforced when he saw a memorial exhibition of paintings by Vincent van Gogh in Paris in 1891.

David Galenson: Edvard Munch and Personal Art David Galenson 2011