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Amanda R. Rodrigues of Monroe, CT, is even more certain that she’s coming to Cambridge for the next four years. “Obviously I know I’m going to Harvard,” she gushed. “My parents are sending in the check tomorrow. We’re going to visit on Saturday...
...hospital beds, Bumrungrad is into the 11th year of a project that sees Thai chefs from major hotels creating themed menus that dovetail with patients' dietary restrictions. Here's hoping they go easy on the chili, though. Not everyone needs to add spice to the results of a CT scan...
USAGE: "Virtopsies combine 3-D imaging of a body's surface with a CT scan of its interior anatomy. The result is a faithful, high-resolution virtual double of the corpse. This double can be used to accurately determine what killed someone...
...overworked by the usual Saturday night clientele, made no bones about the fact that she had no time for me. She sent me away to Mount Auburn Hospital with only the explanation that she was too busy to tend to me (rather than explain that UHS did not have CT scans and I needed one for my head). At the hospital, I had to wait five hours for my head to be sewn up, but there was none of the attitude that had characterized my time at UHS. No recriminations, no doubting, no judgment. It was professional...
...they generate revenue not just from the procedures they do themselves but also from the ones they farm out. Others buy state-of-the-art diagnostic hardware and charge state-of-the-art fees to use it. "Focus on your bottom line," urges a brochure for in-office CT-scan machines from one manufacturer. And as long as insurers pay the bills, patients don't ask what things cost. "A colonoscopy used to take 45 minutes to perform," says Ted Epperly, board chairman of the American Academy of Family Physicians. "Now it takes 15, but the cost hasn't come...