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...they call Harvard University Health Services (UHS), “Sure, you can come in anytime. How about tomorrow at 9:00 a.m.?” Wherever you go, scheduling a doctor’s appointment is a difficult task but UHS’s high level of appointment cancellations and no-shows makes squeezing in a visit unnecessarily difficult. Last year, 12,000 of 180,000 UHS appointments were cancelled fewer than 24 hours ahead of time or missed altogether. These “dinkas” (short for “did not keep appointment”) swamped?...
...students that expressed concern about the cost of “dinkas”—patients whose records are marked with “did not keep appointment.” Of the 180,000 visits scheduled with UHS last year, 12,000 were missed or canceled less than 24 hours ahead of time, according to Rosenthal. He estimated that the figure was as high as 15 percent for services in the highest demand, such as dermatology and mental health. Rosenthal would not say how much “dinkas” cost UHS. Chief of Mental Health...
It’s Monday evening at 7 p.m. and I’m writing this because my plans have been cancelled. I was supposed to listen to Karl, from the hedge fund Amaranth, who was to tell me “everything I always wanted to know about hedge funds but was afraid to ask.” Unfortunately, Karl had to cancel. You see, Karl had a bad day. Earlier today, Karl’s company sent its investors a little note informing them that Amaranth had “experienced significant losses following a dramatic move...
Members of the first-year women’s soccer team have cancelled their accounts on social networking sites, such as Facebook.com and MySpace.com, because of a policy implemented by head coach Erica Walsh. Walsh asked the 21 members of the team to cancel their accounts during the first week of preseason training. The policy comes on the heels of the suspension last May of the Northwestern University’s women’s soccer team after photos of the team that included alcohol, partial nudity, and sexual acts circulated online. Last season, while serving as an assistant coach...
...Naturopathy is an interesting belief system based on the premise that the myriad ingredients in whole plant parts cancel out the side effects of the "drug" in the plant. And many drugs do come from plants. The classic example is digitalis leaf. The foxglove plant contains a chemical, digitalis, that can regulate an irregular heartbeat. Digitalis, the purified chemical, has many well-known side effects, while whole foxglove leaf, say the naturopaths, does not produce these side effects because the other ingredients in the leaf "cancel" them out. Is this really true? I've got my doubts; I have treated...