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...effort echoed in the Senate Finance Committee health-reform bill released Sept. 16. One idea: apologize. Studies show that when doctors tell patients they erred and are sorry, litigation is much less likely. (Such admissions of guilt are typically inadmissible in court.) Since launching a program in which doctors admit errors and offer payments out of court, the University of Michigan Health System has cut claims in half...
...Even the "small but significant" discrepancy highlighted by Imperial's study doesn't point to a particular cause. It's possible that patients admitted on the days junior doctors began work were simply in worse health than those taken in the week earlier. Some hospitals may have been more reluctant to admit patients with less-serious problems on the days new staff started work, limiting the number of cases young medics had to deal with but increasing the concentration of acutely ill patients in the process. "So it may not necessarily be directly related to the quality of care," says...
...leadership crisis in Kabul casts a long shadow over plans to build up the Afghan military and police in order to allow the U.S. and its NATO allies to draw down troop levels. Foreign trainers admit privately that for the next few years, the Afghan security forces are woefully ill prepared to cope with the rising Taliban insurgency. For a monthly salary of $150, the loyalty of an Afghan cop will only go so far when his outpost at some bleak crossroads is ambushed by the Taliban. And while the Taliban forces are often highly motivated, there...
...will admit 17,000 Iraqi refugees this year, an increase from 14,000 in 2008. Mindful of Michigan's unemployment burden, the State Department, working with nongovernment refugee-resettlement agencies, places most of the newcomers in other states, like Arizona, Maryland and Virginia. Michigan got around 3,000 last year, and that number is expected to shrink by a third...
...Wednesday, Sarkozy warned in a French TV interview that time was running out for finding a negotiated solution with Tehran over concerns that its nuclear program has a military intent. "I have to admit, dialogue is not going well. There will be a deadline, and in my mind, it is the month of December," he said...