Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest negotiations of 1973 will pit the United Auto Workers against the Detroit car makers. Though contracts do not expire until September, U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock began spelling out some demands late last month at a prebargaining convention in Detroit. Among them: a more generous cost-of-living escalator, some kind of profit-sharing plan, and by far the most important, a new right for workers to refuse to put in overtime. Heavy overtime has enabled a few workers to earn as much as $20,000 a year, but many complain that the long hours leave them too exhausted...
Most physicians who have tried the new system find it somewhat more time-consuming than inpatient operations. Explains Dr. Patrick Jewell of St. John Hospital in Detroit: "We have to give detailed instructions. If there are minor complaints the first night, we have to handle calls from the relatives." But most agree that the majority of patients-and especially children-are likely to recover faster at home than in the hospital. They also point to the low complication rate from outpatient surgery. Says Sinai's Dr. Eli Brown: "A responsible parent who takes a kid home will probably watch...
...outpatient operations; they equate them with office surgery, which is often not covered by medical policies. But most insurers are delighted with the moneysaving aspects of the idea. Hernia repair, for example, can cost an inpatient more than $600 in costs, exclusive of doctor's fees, at Detroit's St. John Hospital. An outpatient would pay only $301, most of it for the use of the operating room and the anesthesiologist's fees...
Although patients are also enthusiastic about the lower costs and welcome the opportunity to recover in their own homes, a few find that recovery disconcertingly rapid. One Detroit woman who told friends she was going to have a serious operation confessed to her doctor that she was embarrassed at being home so soon after surgery. Another complained that she returned home so quickly that it was days before her get-well cards caught up with...