Word: hectored
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That helps explain why, at a rough guess, some doctors estimate that 45% of all sedation today is handled by people other than anesthesiologists. "There are tens of thousands, maybe millions, of sedation procedures done satisfactorily by other physicians," Guidry says. Still, a 2003 study published by Dr. Hector Vila, chief of anesthesiology at the University of South Florida's College of Medicine, showed 10 times the risk of death or permanent injury for surgery performed in doctors' offices rather than in ambulatory surgery centers. The difference, Vila concluded, was largely due to lax anesthesia procedures. In an extreme example...
...Teacher of General (and indefinable) Studies, the character Hector draws heavily from Robin Williams in “Dead Poets Society”; an old-fashioned academic armed with the appropriate quotations for any circumstance. He does not lose sleep over the students’ struggle to again admission to Oxbridge, as he considers testing (and education itself) an enemy of true education. As the hatefully pragmatic principal describes, Hector’s contribution to the students’ characters is “unquantifiable, and thus purposeless in education...
...enjoying a hard-won victory lap, thanks to its hot Opteron processors. A 70% jump over last year's first-quarter revenues has Dell turning its head; Google is already an AMD partner. Meanwhile, Intel sweats out every earnings call as some of its best customers defect. AMD's Hector Ruiz, CEO of the $6 billion chip company, spoke with TIME's COCO MASTERS about chip architecture, energy prices and doing battle with Intel...
...HECTOR RUIZ We wanted to say the birth of a new icon and the death of an old one. That date marks the beginning of that...
...with pianist Alexis M. Kusy ’07 although she says that might change.Julia I. Bertelsmann ’09 is part of another similarly assembled group which will perform the folk-inspired “Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1 for Eight Celli” by Brazilian composer Hector Villa-Lobos. “We’ve only rehearsed six or seven times,” Bertelsmann says cheerfully. “We’re just a bunch of eager cellists.” The group will perform at 3 p.m. in Paine Hall. But not everyone...