Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Healthy pregnant women waste a lot of time and money going to the doctor," declares the panel's chairman, Dr. Mortimer Rosen of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City...
...Jerome Groopman, a doctor at New EnglandDeaconess Hospital, said he questions the methodsused by community groups. He said that communitygroups, unlike government agencies, may not takeinto consideration the necessary legal, scientificand ethical ramifications of their research...
RESTORING AN IRA DEDUCTION. We spend more than we produce and fail to save nearly enough to remain competitive. Restoring the Individual Retirement Account incentive, as House Democrats proposed, would nudge the average family to spend a little less and save a little more -- just what the doctor ordered. More saving and less borrowing would also tend to lower interest rates, which would benefit rich and poor alike...
Over this same period, payments to doctors under Medicare have risen at a rate of almost 20 percent a year. The average doctor now makes $130,000, more than ten times more than the income for the average senior citizen household...
...There is nothing in this policy that would prevent a physician from providing a benficial service to a patient," writes the Physician Payment Review Commission, a bipartisan group which designed the medicare reform. In other words, the only thing rationed under the proposal are outrageously high doctor fees...