Word: patients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those charges struck a chord among middle-and lower-income Britons, who fear a future of progressively better services for an increasingly wealthy few. The issue goes to the heart of Britain's free-health-care system and moves the country toward medical treatment based largely on the patient's ability to pay. Says Paul Swain, a London hospital consultant: "A majority of people really like the NHS no matter how much they grumble about...
Both Harvard-affiliated studies, Schooley said,are only in "preliminary" stages of human testingand involve a small number of in-patient subjects...
...Working one-on-one was great," says Duquette. "They [the student tutors] were really patient, and they went at our own pace. It wasn't what they wanted to get done but what we wanted done...
...exchange grew out of New Pathway, a Med School curriculum implemented three years ago that encourages students to develop their own course of study. Administrators continue to expand the program with a third-year clerkship program and a course on patient-doctor relationships beginning this term...
Goodgame, 34, confesses to being not so patient a waiter as Duffy, but he's learning. A native of Pascagoula, Miss., Goodgame studied at the University of Mississippi and at Oxford. After stints at the Tampa Tribune and Miami Herald, he joined TIME's Los Angeles bureau in 1984, where he covered everything from immigration to movie stars. "My editors, in their wisdom, saw some natural progression from profiling Bill Cosby to covering the President," he says...