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Doctors will argue privately that there is not enough watchful waiting and re-examination anymore, partly because patience literally doesn't pay. "The areas in the U.S. with the highest rates of use of hospital beds, intensive-care units, specialist consultations and invasive testing don't have the best quality of care and outcomes," says Berwick. "In fact, they often have the worst. It would be a great advance in both quality and cost if somehow the American public came to understand that 'more care' is not by any means always 'better care,' and that new technologies and hospital stays...
This doesn’t mean we all need a firm background in the intricacies of fiscal policy. In fact, part of the beauty of this type of literacy is that both a specialist and a generalist can gain insight from the same set of facts. The former may understand the implications for future research in far greater detail, but the latter can still appreciate the contribution to the big picture...
...almost have to be perfect defensively, and hope that our offense gets us the number of goals that we need.”The latter nearly happened, when a Crimson flurry late made things slightly more interesting.Down 8-5 entering the fourth quarter, a score from extra-man specialist Steve Cohen made it a two-goal game with 6:31 to play.After a Tiger score made it 9-6 with 3:12 remaining and long Princeton possession brought the action down under a minute, sophomore midfielder Zach Widbin made it 9-7 with 12 seconds to go.After a brief scrum...
...Sally is another incredibly physically fit friend of mine, her blood pressure and fitness level better than those of most teenagers. When taking her son to see an ear, nose and throat specialist for recurrent ear infections, she innocently asked the doctor why she could hear her heart beating when she went to bed. He thought she might have some sinus problems and prescribed some antibiotics and a nasal spray. When she had no relief from her heart's nightly lullaby, she returned to the doctor who ordered a CT scan to further evaluate her sinuses. The CT scan revealed...
...Palestinian people for their democratic choice. Cutting aid to NGOs and entrepreneurs in the West Bank and Gaza before the Hamas government takes any meaningful action would be a thinly-veiled attempt to retaliate against Palestinians for choosing Hamas over Fatah. Maher Awartani, a Palestinian-American youth participation specialist at a USAID-funded project in Ramallah, rightly notes that cutting such funding in response to the recent elections would demonstrate to Palestinians that the U.S. is “punishing us for...pure indigenous democratic practice...