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...shoulder--and a grudge on the other. "I think I've got a certain talent," he says, "and I don't know how to defend it. So I end up defending it more vociferously than it may need, but I always feel under threat. It's a basic in-built paranoia. When people start interfering, I go a little bit crazy...
...airline industry, one of most heavily unionized industries in the country. What you have to do is make wages be like fuel, so that no one competes on labor costs but on service, efficiency and innovation. You could have pooled pensions and health care and even a basic entry-level wage rate for everyone...
...When things go wrong and there’s a possibility of a malpractice suit, the basic policy has been for everyone to keep their mouth shut and let the lawyers take over. And a kind of wall of silence has built up between patients and their families and the doctors,” Delbanco said. “We’ve said that’s not the right thing to do, and that frank and open and human discussion should occur right away...
...boils down to the very basic principle of a doctor-patient relationship. The relationship has to be strong and have good communication, and if something goes wrong you still need to have that,” Jernegan said...
...foreign officers who now work as advisers it is winning back the trust of citizens. While the so-called "tensions" (which lasted from 1998 to 2003) were mostly confined to Guadalcanal, 400 km away, the Western province experienced food and supply shortages, and the trickle of funding for basic services such as education and medical care ceased. People who could afford it imported men from the neighboring Papua New Guinea island province of Bougainville as security guards. But the practice got out of control, and the hired hands quickly became henchmen and bullies; some are now wanted for murder. Once...