Word: clockings
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Defining residents' shifts solely by the tick of the clock means that more patients could end up being handed off from one doctor to another at inopportune moments, and research suggests that those handoffs are when errors may commonly occur. "If we do something like this," says Polonsky in reference to the IOM's proposed guidelines, "I want to be sure that it is primarily going to improve the outcome of our patients," and then adding, "But that's not necessarily the case here...
...First Lady to make Maxim's hottest-women-in-the-world list. (She's No. 93; it probably wouldn't be proper for a First Lady to come in any higher.) Cameras with lenses that can count her pores from three states away are trained on her around the clock. Former East Wing veterans marvel at the lovesick coverage she gets: when Oscar de la Renta questions her fashion sense - "You don't ... go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater" - the response is, essentially, Well, what does he know? This is what a paradigm shift looks like. (See pictures...
...life. This opacity does not inspire trust; it has not only spawned the Undergraduate Council’s grandiloquent “We Are Harvard” campaign but also fostered new rumors about further cuts. One of these claimed that Lamont Library would not be open around the clock next year—speculation that was summarily rejected by a College Library spokeswoman yesterday. What we need is honest and clear dialogue with the administration, both during emergencies and in everyday life...
...remember one Saturday at the end of the first semester, I had to leave for New York City at five in the morning, shoot at 11, and take the three o’clock bus back,” he said...
Once placed under house arrest, Zhao could do little but obsess over past events, rewinding the clock to pore over the technicalities of the state's case against him. His few attempts to venture out met with almost comically Kafkaesque resistance. For example, when authorities finally permitted him to play pool at a club for party officials, they first swept the place of other people, ensuring that Zhao played alone. His captors ultimately succeeded in keeping him out of view and silencing his voice, and they put up enough obstacles to deter all but the most determined visitors...