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...language and they're used to putting their trust in doctors. And they laugh at my jokes. But engineers, as a class, are possibly the best patients. They're logical and they're accustomed to the concept of consultation - they're interested in how the doctor thinks about their problem. They know how to use experts. If your orthopedist thinks about arthritis, for instance, in terms of friction between roughened joint surfaces, you should try to think about it, generally, in the same way. There is little use coming to him or her for help if you insist your arthritis...
...punted. I told her there was nothing I could do differently than her last three orthopedists, but I could refer her to another who might be able to help. A certain Dr. Brown, whom I'd known as a resident, had been particularly interested in her type of knee problem...
...government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh relies on leftist parties for its political survival, and those parties and some student activists are against foreign universities, which they see as a threat to India's indigenous education system. "I really don't think foreign universities are the answer to our problem," says Amrita Bahri, 22, president of the Delhi University Students Union. "They may surely develop the infrastructure, but they will also surely inflate the fee structure and make education more of a commercial venture...
...shoulders of a diminishing proportion of workers. "We're creating our own fiscal catastrophe," Kotlikoff said in 2004. At the same time, businesses have been desperate to contain rising health-care premiums. Three years later, Kotlikoff is still determinedly on message--and offers his own radical cure for the problem...
Liberal health experts worry that these plans would cause the employer-based system to unravel. But it's already unraveling. As health costs increase, companies are cutting back on their coverage or dropping it altogether. The Democratic solution to the problem is to find new ways to bolster the employer-based system and fill in its gaps...