Word: orientedness
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Groopman discussed one of his patients, "Kirk," mentioned in the first chapter of his book. Kirk realized at the end of a battle with kidney cancer how unmeaningful his fast-paced, business-oriented life had been. Such epiphanies, Groopman said, are meaningful to the patient and his family.
"There's no way any rookie quarterback can have a clue," agrees Madden. Charlie Batch, an unheralded Detroit Lions rookie, has at times looked better than Manning or Leaf, but he's still working in the dark too. Madden says it's partly because college defenses are run oriented and...
"I think that people at Harvard are really goal-oriented and don't have time for relationships," says Moon.
Having now gone way beyond the call of journalistic duty by suffering through tapes of two episodes of Pfeiffer, I think both sides are missing the point. It's a lousy show, but it's too trivial to justify all the umbrage Bakewell and his allies are heaping on it...
To find the money to save these young lives, Kurtzberg is always searching for ways to cut treatment costs. She and her staff spend long hours on the phone each day trying to wring money out of insurance companies. But the bottom line for the cord program is not healthy...