Word: chronical
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...deal with a chronic problem I have. I would talk to the patients in my office and lead off the discussion by saying, "You're here not for an operation, but for an opinion." And I continued to be struck at how many misperceptions cloud the view that patients have. I realized that the only way I was ever going to really make a dent, an epidemiologically significant dent, was to write a book of this nature that explains what I think I know about how the human body works in a way that people could understand...
...measure of Deighton's considerable skill is that despite Samson's chronic grousing, anyone who starts Berlin Game is likely to persist through to the end of London Match. The story could have been brilliant if some ferocious editor had slashed it ruthlessly to one taut volume. Even so, the texture is wonderfully gray and grainy, and the scenes between Volkmann and Samson in the first and third novels are authoritative. Samson's predicament is a metaphor of middle age, if anyone should need one. And in the days of constant spy revelations, the central questions continue to haunt...
...approach. Exploring the role in rehearsal, Kline improvised without warning, flopping onto the floor when he was meant to sit, tearing pages from a book and pasting them onto Polonius' head with spit. Between scenes he would pounce on a piano or indulge what friends josh as chronic hypochondria by relaxing his back in a vibrating armchair, transported from his book-lined apartment in an Upper West Side brownstone. Kline and the orderly, meticulous director Liviu Ciulei clashed so often that Producer Papp joined in the final staging...
While undergoing tests for a chronic back problem last winter, Republican Senator Paula Hawkins of Florida composed a letter intended to dispel doubts about her political future. "Dear Friend," it read, "I feel great! . . . We are about 30 days behind schedule in our fund raising . . ." The note looked as if it had been handwritten, yet if Hawkins had personally scribbled all 40,000 letters that went out, terminal writer's cramp would have set in. In fact, the note was run through a high-tech copier that duplicates the script...
...agency's potentially remunerative pay-for-performance scheme. The aim, sensibly enough, is to pay doctors for keeping their patients healthy, as opposed to the current fee-for-service basis that simply rewards patient throughput. A priority for McClellan is to improve the treatment of diabetes and other chronic diseases, which absorb a disproportionate amount of health-care dollars. That requires better data collection--uploading and monitoring information from glucose meters, for instance--and more communication with patients...