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...some pressure on academic surgeons to let the residents actually do the surgery - after all, when the senior residents graduate, they will be in charge themselves somewhere else. When I trained in the mid-1980s, there were always plenty of residents and fellows vying to "do something" at every case; standing room only was the rule. Having lots of assistants on hand can smooth a case out - if they are good. Nowadays, though, surgical-residency programs are much smaller. And even with fewer slots available - many of them, even in good programs, are going empty. (Read "Understanding the Health-Care...
...what's the alternative? Hospitals that are flush can hire PAs to assist; the one where I work does. But most can't afford the hefty expense of PAs. Even the hospitals that have the funds don't have enough to hire PAs for every case. So I often end up begging older colleagues or a surgeon waiting for the start of his own case for a "freebie"; I'm playing on goodwill, friendship or the promise of his eventually getting a paying case...
...separate experiments, researchers were able to influence participants' behavior by exposing them to "cleanliness" in the form of a common cleaning agent's odor - in this case, citrus-scented Windex. It turned out that people who sat in a room spritzed with Windex were more likely to act fairly and charitably than those sniffing unscented...
...Buell says, referring particularly to universities in the People’s Republic of China as one example of a potential market which will likely not be able to capitalize on the information in the work because of minimal acquisition budgets. “There would be a case where some virtualization strategy would be well-advised, and maybe [“Literary History”] could be sold for rights that would keep the Harvard Press from going under and would benefit hundreds of thousands,” he explains...
...Whether the broader public is benefiting from the industry's success is less clear. How Greenwood's group has scored decisive early victories on an obscure but crucial health-care provision is a case study in how interest groups are shaping the contours of health-care reform - and why that's not necessarily good news for consumers...