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...doctor will tell you the advantages of having lots of patient data on computers: it helps us avoid redundant tests, gather huge amounts of data for research, screen automatically for drug interactions, all with no problems with our famously illegible handwriting. I would be happy if every patient could hand me a digital file of everything about him; it could really save time on first visits. But against our government's push to get all patients' records computerized we must keep in mind there will be a cost to this - far beyond the billions to be spent setting...
Twenty-five million Americans pay for health insurance but have inadequate coverage. There's no magic formula for figuring out how much coverage is enough, but here are a few pitfalls to avoid...
Over the top as she is, Orman's ubiquitous presence has become a sort of unofficial economic barometer: the worse things get, the harder she is to avoid. Her style seems almost intentionally annoying: she screams on camera, her blue eyes practically bugging out of her head. But she has long been saying what America needs to hear, crusading against credit-card debt and urging people to save money and pay down their mortgages. Since the onset of the recession, she has made some subtle adjustments to her image, positioning herself more as a populist crisis manager than...
...aging parents. Eventually, Orman started getting antsy. "We should call this show Get Aggravated with Suze Orman," she said after a rant about the mortgage companies. "Can you hear my tummy growling? I'm sitting here fantasizing about a McDouble cheeseburger with onions!" (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...avoid that, Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány wants $230 billion in aid for Eastern members hardest hit by the crisis, and fast-track membership to the eurozone, the club of nations that uses Europe's common currency. Without help, Gyurcsány says, there is likely to be social and political unrest and a new economic Iron Curtain across Europe...