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Managed care was meant to lighten the load on emergency services by emphasizing affordable preventive care that would keep people out of the ED. Instead, says Dr. Vincent Markovchick, emergency-services chief at Denver Health Medical Center, "the exact opposite has happened." Like many ED docs, he contends that primary-care physicians--feeling overworked and discouraged from doing expensive "extra" tests like an MRIs or EKGs--often hand off patients to the ED. Now patients who turn up there are sicker than ever before. Today 20% of visitors are admitted to the hospital, compared with around 12% a decade...
Roger O'Sullivan, president of the Cambridge Teachers Association, is concerned about the fact that teachers will be required to teach outside of their certification areas. While in principle they are allowed to teach 20 percent of their teaching load outside of their specialization, the Board of Education opposes this...
...admits his new job will contribute to a "heavy load" but "right now, I'm planning to do it in the course of current work," he said...
...anyone had the misfortune to load the New York Times Web site on Saturday morning around 11:30, she would have seen a photo of George W. Bush and Jesus Christ, a carefully cropped picture of the presidential candidate speaking in a chapel which had a mural of Christ behind the pulpit. My question is: did the photographer/editor mean the cropping to be a mischievous reference to Bush's steady invocations of Christ on the campaign trail, did he mean it to be a positive commentary on the Republican front-runner, or was it just a coincidence...
...enjoying the most beneficial education at Harvard lies in finding the correct balance between large and small classes. Large classes may be better known--and therefore tempting to students--but a full load of courses taught in Sanders Theatre may leave some students feeling lost in the crowd. On the other hand, students who scrupulously avoid large lecture classes may never have the chance to be in a course taught by one of Harvard's academic superstars...