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...doubles draw, Harvard's team of Blake and co-captain Kunj Majmudar has been more of an upset special- ist. In a draw in which no seeded team reachedthe semifinals, Harvard upset Duke's Doug Root andJordan Wile, the second-seeded team...
Several panelists supported these student principles, such as Dr. Robert Kohan, a professor of political science from Duke, who echoed the need for some form of public disclosure so that workers or human-rights groups at a particular factory could pull the code of conduct fire-alarm and alert universities to code violation. Koehane also pointed out that the quick consensus called for by some administrators should not be used an excuse for a weak code...
...forces that have changed Shah's career path are changing Duke as well. In the department of surgery, the faculty once relied exclusively on hospital patients as case studies for teaching residents, but the average number of days that patients spend at Duke has dropped from 8.3 to 6.9 in the past five years. That prompted administrators to scrap plans for a nine-story inpatient addition to the 1,124-bed hospital and opt instead to construct the ambulatory surgery center, completed last June, which houses seven operating rooms for same-day surgery procedures. "We spent hours deciding...
What makes an IPA different from a regular managed-care company is that the doctors who are giving the care are also calling the financial shots. PrimaHealth is owned and operated by doctors from Duke and the surrounding area. It has contracts with insurance companies to provide the doctors' services under those plans. Once it has the contract, PrimaHealth doctors, not the insurance company, make the decisions about how patients will be cared...
...some ways acting like a union, negotiate how much money they will charge to provide care. An IPA also gives doctors more control over how they do their jobs, something managed care has been taking away. "The doctors want to be listened to," says Dr. Dennis Clements, a Duke pediatrician and PrimaHealth member physician. "Why did we go to all that school if someone with an M.B.A. is going to make all the decisions...