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...Bednarz of Energy & Healthcare Consultants in Pittsburgh contends that the medical industry needs to rethink how it uses energy and, more important, figure out how it can get by on less - something that will become an inevitability when oil prices start creeping up again. Last summer's high fuel costs gave some in the field an inkling of what hospitals might face. "The old method of 'just in time' delivery for supplies [and trauma patients] made sense with energy sufficiency," says Bednarz. "It makes no sense when you have energy scarcity or very high prices." He says facilities will need...
...Bednarz's prescription for lower-oil medicine also demands more emphasis on public health and preventive medicine - a focus on wellness rather than illness - which would naturally lower the burden on the health-care system. He adds that physicians can further reduce their dependence on technology - and oil - by better developing their experiential and tactile knowledge, reclaiming a part of medicine's low-tech past. Much of the energy-intensive lab tests and scans doctors routinely prescribe are "redundant, unnecessary," he says. "An important element in care is whether you feel the person caring for you cares...
...first step, says Bednarz, is to recognize medicine's dependence on oil. Then "human ingenuity and creativity will kick in and we'll get actual solutions for moving medicine beyond...
...town lacks paved roads and even a sewage system. Mayor Gabryel Gabka, 58, has applied for European Union money to build one. "But even if we get it, there may not be the people here to do the job," he says. As for Tusk's "liberal" agenda, says Lucjan Bednarz, a local PIS activist: "Only youngsters who are not yet able to have a stable opinion and who are influenced by certain TV programs adopt the kind of rootless, temporary opinions which are favorable to the Civic Platform." As for Tusk himself, says Bednarz, "So far, he hasn't shown...
...Olympic TV center at Ostankino in northern Moscow have told journalists who want to transmit footage back home via the center's facilities that any film will be rejected if it strays even slightly from the subject of sports. The first victim of this policy was Klaus Bednarz, a correspondent for the West German network ARD. His report, titled The Olympics and Propaganda, was turned down flat by officials, so he had to send it by air freight...
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