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...driven essentially means it doesn't matter what we do or say to patients as long as they feel satisfied by their interaction with us. When the problem is complex and the best treatment mediocre, it's far more profitable to smile, cajole and refer on to the next doc. The next doc might actually do the heavy lifting of explaining and living with a difficult patient or, as was done times six in Anna's case, he too might keep it light and pleasant, do his thing and say goodbye...
...very inefficient, and - when you add it all up - a lot more expensive than giving one good doc a good fee for taking good care of a person who continues to be his or her patient...
...only a few, and those initially rejected can usually talk their way in. Oh yeah, writing skills might help.It’s often a crapshoot whether you’ll get to be in the vicinity of a senior or junior faculty member or a lecturer or post-doc. Like profs, post-docs act as sophomore and junior tutorial leaders and can be either exceedingly good or exceedingly bad. Let the risk-averse take note. It’s often arbitrary whether you’ll get a good or bad draw (either the sophomore tutorial with a fantabulous...
...This was supposed to be the most serious, solemn, super-politicized Toronto International Film Festival ever. And we have had plenty of grim testimonies, both doc and mock, to terrorism in the pre- and post-9/11 world, from Alexander Oey's My Life as a Terrorist: The Story of Hans Joachim Klein - which documents the seizing of OPEC Ministers in Vienna in 1975 by a commando brigade that included Klein and was led by Carlos the Jackal - to Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein's meticulous, devastating The Prisoner: Or, How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair, the story...
...Dick - who made the terrific (NC-17) study Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist in 1977, and earned an Oscar nomination for the predatory-priest doc Twist of Faith - asks pertinent, pointed questions about the secrecy of the process. Filmmakers are not told the identity of their judges, either on the nine-person ratings committee or on the larger appeals board. Part of the movie's fun is in Dick's hiring of a detective who tracks down the names of the members on these two star chambers. (The sleuthing is amusing but ultimately irrelevant. The raters...