Word: axelrod
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...Reagan on particular issues, they supported him anyway with the idea that he would at least stand firm for something. And few paid enough attention to what that something was, or even to how much his convictions really meant to Reagan. So it is now with Simon. As David Axelrod, who managed his Senate campaign, told the New Republic, "Simon's greatest strength has nothing to do with issues. People respond to something in him that says, 'This isn't your normal bullshit politician...
...failure to respond directly to Walker's charges. "I learned that if your opponent takes out after you, you take out after him," he says. If anything, Simon erred the other way in his 1984 upset of three- term Senator Charles Percy: he was too aggressive. As David Axelrod, who was and still is a top Simon campaign adviser, puts it, "When he lashed out against Percy, there was no question that some of that anger was lingering anger about...
...June, Axelrod's committee issued a report recommending improved supervision of residents and strict limits on how many hours they can work at a stretch. Residents, urged the committee, should work no more than 16 consecutive hours in ordinary, inpatient care, and no more than twelve hours in the emergency room. In today's high-tech environment, said Axelrod, "the opportunity to do good as well as to do harm is increasing. I don't know that someone who is semisomnolent can make the judgments required...
Last week, the Greater New York Hospital Association, which represents nonprofit hospitals in and around New York City, responded to the Axelrod initiative with its own study. While supporting the "overall intent" of the proposed reforms, G.N.Y.H.A. raised a number of problems. Limiting the hours worked by residents could create massive staffing shortages at teaching hospitals, warned the report. In addition, the cost of transferring responsibility from low-paid residents to high-salaried senior staff and implementing other reforms would be staggering: at least $200 million a year for G.N.Y.H.A.'s 70 member hospitals. The report also warned of introducing...
...A.M.A. argues that only the medical profession can intelligently guide the training of its own members. But in New York, Axelrod is pushing for implementation of his proposed changes by next July. Thus the medical profession in its reluctance to heal itself may be forced to swallow the bitter pill of imposed reform...