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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...
Eiermann acknowledged that the boat lineups had been shuffled, as the Harvard coaches are experimenting with different mixes before finalizing their boats for the spring season. He was encouraged by the Crimson’s performance across the board, especially since the 2V and 3V boats rowed well compared to their counterparts from other schools...
...settlement marks the conclusion of a two-year lawsuit in which the two students alleged that these individuals posted sexually harassing and threatening information on AutoAdmit, a message board utilized by law students and employers...
These positives have long been overwhelmed by a school committee without a clear direction and ineffective superintendents that were the result—a common enough occurrence that many experts believe school-board models are themselves unworkable. School committees can succeed at running districts, however, as long they do at least three things: provide extensive political cover for the superintendent; manage the system’s finances effectively; and think creatively, but not intrusively, about curriculum and instructional issues. On these criteria, two of Cambridge’s committee members—Patricia M. Nolan...