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...fees to use it. "Focus on your bottom line," urges a brochure for in-office CT-scan machines from one manufacturer. And as long as insurers pay the bills, patients don't ask what things cost. "A colonoscopy used to take 45 minutes to perform," says Ted Epperly, board chairman of the American Academy of Family Physicians. "Now it takes 15, but the cost hasn't come down." (See how to prevent illness...
Indeed, across the board, costs are going up. And between the millstones of fee-for-service and pressure from insurers to curb all the extra billing, family doctors are being ground into paste. "We've made it systematically as unpleasant to be a PCP as it is to be a primary-school teacher," says Gene Lindsey, president of Atrius Health, a nonprofit alliance of medical providers in Massachusetts. "We're real adept at that...
Cornell's 64-member Board of Trustees has gathered at Cornell this weekend for one of their four meetings of the year. Apparently portions of their meetings are open to the public? The Harvard Corporation, on the other hand, has just seven members who meet privately once a month...
...military-backed regime has attempted to prop up the collapsing industry by promoting internal tourism. Working with resorts and hotels on Roatán Island, a popular Caribbean dive spot off Honduras' northern coast, the de facto tourism board is promoting special two-for-one vacation deals. Many Hondurans have taken the bait, flocking to the white sands of Roatán and filling hotel rooms that were once occupied by U.S. and European travelers. Hondurans who support the de facto regime, such as tour operator Vilma Sauceda of Rema Tours, says the fact that Hondurans are "traveling like crazy...
...Hilo, Hawaii, and continued for some 30 miles over the Pacific Ocean before circling back. The captain originally said they had entered the wrong air-traffic-control frequency, but both pilots later admitted they had fallen asleep. A contributing factor to the incident, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), was the captain's undiagnosed sleep apnea, which authorities call a growing cause of transportation accidents...