Word: coste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...famously illegible handwriting. I would be happy if every patient could hand me a digital file of everything about him; it could really save time on first visits. But against our government's push to get all patients' records computerized we must keep in mind there will be a cost to this - far beyond the billions to be spent setting it up. Many of us in medicine are concerned that the greatest cost will be in the quality of medicine that we practice. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...that large, mechanized medical operations like hospitals, clinics and big multi-doctor practices stand to make quite a bit of money by adopting them - given our current convoluted system of paying for health care. Two clear factors make EMR a money-winner: improved billing and internal cost control...
...right now. Worst part about Harvard: The blistering reality that their futures are much brighter than my own in six months. Describe yourself in 3 words: Friend to folly. In 15 minutes you are: Ordering another red-eye coffee from JP Licks. In 15 years you are: Doing a cost analysis of a gym membership versus plastic surgery...
...that score, of course, the jury is still out. Geithner and the Administration have resisted outright nationalization of the banks because of the cost, complexity and political hazards of doing so. Instead, they are trying to get the market to price the incredibly complicated mortgage-backed assets that are suffocating the economy by paying part of the cost for private investors to buy them off the banks' balance sheets. At the same time, the Federal Reserve, whose chairman, Ben Bernanke, took his own public flogging on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, is unveiling an aggressive plan to stimulate consumer, small-business...
...matter at all. Geithner was chosen as Treasury Secretary over the rough-edged but more experienced former Treasury chief Larry Summers in part because Geithner was considered a smoother salesman. And Geithner will always be saddled with the hard-to-explain $34,000 tax shortfall that almost cost him the nomination. For now, though, Democrats are defending the Treasury Secretary against the bad reviews. "Every Administration official responding to this economic crisis, especially Treasury Secretary Geithner given his role, is working under the equivalent of an electron microscope that dramatically magnifies everything," says Rep. Jim McDermott, of Washington. "The Secretary...