Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy expansion and profits for related industries. Improvements in quality or access to care have generally been made at great cost. Hospitals compete for physicians with expensive new technology and abundant beds, and doctors stock the wards. Because insurance usually covers in hospital care, doctors tend to hospitalize a patient for procedures which could be done on an outpatient basis, to keep the patient in the hospital longer, and to overutilize marginally useful services. The physician usually isn't a hospital employee and is not necessarily responsive to the administrative chain of command. He has no financial stake...
...that the movie fails to engage us? There is the well-realized meeting between two curious and disparate minds. Added to this is a sweet courtship and real marriage between Field and a gas station attendant (Beau Bridges), a man with few brains but good, patient instincts. The problem lies in story development. There is something dreadfully predictable about the way the tale moves. When Norma Rae finally causes all the machines in the mill to be stopped through the sheer force of her belief in justice, our response is to wonder why it took so long for the film...
...President himself feels unfairly besieged by the rash of criticism of his foreign policy. He thinks that his show of restraint should be seen not as weakness but rather as the patient forbearance of a powerful nation and its leader. Indeed, in all his public speeches, even as a candidate, Carter usually lowered his voice to make his main points, apparently expecting that he would thus gain more respect than if he indulged himself in stridency...
...finally committed to an insane asylum, where doctors told her she should quit writing if she hoped to recover. Instead, she left her husband and her depression, too, and developed a successful career as a writer and an abolitionist. The heroine in The Yellow Wallpaper is also a mental patient, but unlike her author, she doesn't recover. The play presents a frightening descent into madness, as illustrated by the woman's way of viewing the wallpaper in her room...
Some $2.4 billion is now spent annually in the U.S. on the "batteries" - 37 mil lion hospital admissions at an average of $66 per patient. By making them op tional, Blue Cross-Blue Shield ? could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Instituting the economies will f not be easy. As Walter J. McNerney, national Blue Cross-Blue 1 Shield president, explains, "Doctors must change their practices." Trouble is, in recent years the trend has been toward more tests. "Fearing malpractice suits, many physicians defensively order diagnostic tests simply to get them on the record even if they provide...