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Your assertion that military medicine was on trial is correct. However, one fact that has been ignored is that Bethesda Naval Hospital rescinded Commander Billig's credentials in November 1984 on the basis of its own internal quality assessment. This was well over a year ago, and our system for monitoring the appropriateness of care in the hospital has continued to progress throughout that time. Edward S. Amis Jr. Commanding Officer Naval Hospital Bethesda...
...whatever the merits of these and other specific cases, the insurance companies are correct in their basic contention: an evolution in liability law has led to higher jury awards and is at least partly responsible for the rise in insurance rates. One important change: the amounts assessed by juries to compensate for lost wages, medical payments and the like now make up a small part of many liability awards. Juries are increasingly likely to add on far larger amounts for noneconomic damages, that is, for such unquantifiable things as pain and suffering...
While the sudden air strike strained relations among America's allies, Libya was equally at odds with a few of its friends. "The Kremlin got some real heat last week from its Arab allies for not showing more support for Gaddafi," said a Western diplomat in Moscow. To correct that impression perhaps, Pravda printed an interview with the maverick Libyan last week, in which he gave lavish thanks to Party Chief Mikhail Gorbachev for his support. Nevertheless, the Soviets remain wary about attaching themselves too closely to a Libyan regime that is mercurial at best. Moscow zestfully pounced...
Horowitz, when asked what is most important in his life, answers simply: "My wife and that I can still play, am still a musician." He continues: "I made only one mistake when we were married, and that was I did not teach her to play duets. Now I will correct that mistake, and we will play four hands together." Wanda looks at him, understanding this unspoken declaration of love, and appears content. "You're lucky," she tells...
...Americans cannot read well enough to perform the simplest tasks. Of 15,000 tested, 20% could not write a check without an error so serious that a bank could not cash it; 22% were unable to address an envelope well enough to ensure postal delivery; 40% could not figure correct change from a store purchase; and more than half had at least some trouble with reading or writing. "We're talking about half the U.S. population being in a borderline or worse situation," says Texas Researcher Jim Cates, who directed the study. "There is no threat to the U.S. greater...