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...isn’t there something to be lost in expecting to gain too much? “Right now, my idealism is high-risk, high-reward,” Coughlin says. “I’m young. If you’re not idealistic when you’re young, there’s something wrong with...
...from perfect, it does detect many breast tumors at their earliest, most treatable stage, particularly in women over 50, says Dr. David Thomas, the study's principal investigator and a cancer epidemiologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Still, he concedes, if you're in a high-risk group and you know how to do them right, regular, thorough breast self-exams may be worth doing. In any event, if you discover a lump, be sure to tell your doctor immediately. --By Christine Gorman
...doctors' offices from Pennsylvania to Oregon, which are limiting their case loads--or going out of business--because of the high cost of insurance. Malpractice insurers have been hit by several years of soaring jury awards, even as the slumping stock market has ended the fat returns they used to get from investing premiums. As insurers try to make up for their losses by sharply raising rates, medical facilities are shuttering wards and doctors are dropping high-risk practice areas such as obstetrics and trauma surgery. Employers are shying away from the hardest-hit cities while doctors and legislators cobble...
Unfortunately for doctors, they can't say the same. Because their reimbursement rates are often fixed by contracts with HMOs and managed-care groups, doctors cannot readily pass on their increased costs. To pay higher insurance premiums, some doctors have cut back on staff. But others are dropping high-risk specialties or retiring early. "I would be working just to pay my malpractice costs," said Debra Wright, a Las Vegas obstetrician who took a leave of absence this spring to avoid a premium increase to $180,000, from $50,000 last year. She hopes to resume her work if rates...
...venture market in Europe is far less mature than in the U.S., the Continent has a far greater share of these young funds in trouble. Meanwhile, captive funds - those that are owned by a single, usually financial, institution - are being pressured by their investors to avoid putting money in high-risk ventures and to cut back their staffs...