Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bargaining power, since their contracts with employers often specify what medical insurance is to be provided for members. Some unions are exploring ways to put a greater percentage of their premiums into care. The United Automobile Workers and General Motors have launched pilot projects to work with hospitals and doctor groups to bring down the proportion of premium dollars going to administrative costs. In Flint, Michigan, they got hospitals to eliminate 450 unneeded beds so that more money from HMOs will go to care for patients in the beds that will be kept...
...real entertainment began when baritone Earle Patriarco's Sergeant Belcore took the stage. A classic miles gloriosus, this Belcore had a vapidity no strutting could conceal. Equally but independently ridiculous was bass Dale Travis' Doctor Dulcamara, a hobo-quack who bore an eerie resemblance to the poet Donald Hall. Dulcamara's vendor antics completely undercut his dramatic entrance and resonant "udite" ("listen!"), and his abracadabra, Darkwing Duck gesturings made one laugh out loud. If it hadn't been for the skillful comic acting of these two, the farcical plot would have been in awkward tension with the gorgeous music. Though...
...hate to put it this way," the doctor said rather cheerfully as he handed me a consent form, "but you're the ideal candidate for heart bypass surgery...
...mean to imply that I have any trepidation about the surgery," I told the doctor, "although I can't claim to be thrilled by the thought of my heart lying on a table at the side of an operating room somewhere. I know how forgetful those guys can be. I've seen Chicago Hope. I mean, I can picture them sewing me back up and then having some scrub nurse say to the rest of the team, 'Do you hear a noise coming from somewhere over by the door--a sort of bah-BAAM, bah-BAAM, bah-BAAM...
...have any other questions about this procedure that you'd like me to answer?" the doctor said...