Word: cared
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...flood tide -- around $100 billion a year -- and Fahd led Saudi Arabia into headlong modernization. He built hospitals, schools, superhighways, sports arenas. Many Saudis went in a single generation from mud huts to trim low-cost housing, free education for their children through the university level, and free medical care in modern hospitals. Fahd managed affairs with Bedouin shrewdness. He insisted that as soon as a project was approved, money for it had to be set aside. The practice horrified financial advisers who thought the cash should be invested to earn interest, but when oil prices broke and the kingdom...
...procedure lacked the drama of an epochal event. For 28 minutes, a grayish liquid in a suspended plastic bag dripped intravenously into the left hand of the child, who sat upright in a bed in the Clinical Center's pediatric intensive-care unit. That was it. But if the technique works as the doctors hope it will, the results could be little short of miraculous. Their patient may eventually begin to lead a normal life, without need for the costly and only partly effective drug now used to extend the lives of young victims of the disease...
...revenues from black crude -- which reached a high of $113 billion in 1981 and this year are expected to top $60 billion -- have enabled the House of Saud to create a modern state almost overnight and, in the process, buy the continued fealty of its subjects. First-class medical care is free. So is education from kindergarten to postgraduate levels. Each Saudi family receives 750 sq. yds. of free land and a 30-year interest-free loan of $80,000 to build a house on it. Entrepreneurs get huge interest-free loans to start businesses. And no one pays taxes...
...People are encouraged to have a primary physician or nurse-practitioner," Weingarten said. "It just makes for better care because if you come in to see [new physicians, they have] to get to know the patient all over again. And just having a relationship makes for better care...
Further reorganization at UHS is forthcoming. In about six weeks, the specialist clinics will be moved to the space freed up by the walk-in clinic, and the medical care teams will move upstairs, Weingarten said. Rosenthal added that a complete renovation and remodelling of UHS will probably also be forthcoming...