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...bulk of patient visits are for really simple things - questions that a reasonably bright resident would get right. Most pneumonias, for example, are pretty easy to treat; the internist should have no trouble doing it himself. But sub-specialization is the trend.The reasons for this are tied up in ego, education and mostly economics...
...ego thing is a medical classic. Just follow the cliches - BIG specialist, little old family doctor. Yes, the impressive title might still be a huge deal for some, but it really does seem that the kids in med school now are a little wiser and promise to be less esteem-driven than past generations. That's good because they promise to be more fully orbed, empathetic humans; but it's also bad because they take a lot more time off. The big egos of my generation pushed their owners through quite a bit of extra hard work...
...Suze Orman, the CNBC personal-finance guru, you must first toss out that old mascara, say your full name while standing in front of the mirror and discover true inner harmony. Women have a "totally dysfunctional" relationship with money, Orman writes in her new book, Women & Money, and these ego-boosting exercises are crucial to curing it. "Lasting net worth," she writes, comes from "a healthy and strong sense of self-worth...
...that’s basically just off-the-cuff sort of playing,” he said as he put down his drumsticks after a complex drum solo, drawing a laugh from the audience. Viglione insisted that his theatrical style does not come from the ego, but from an effort to be free to the present. “I try to think beyond normally expected boundaries and be open to whatever is coming in,” he said, citing a drum solo from “The Onion Cellar” in which he tried to give musical...
...Which is not to say that some members of the cast don’t make the rapid-fire, “all jokes are created equal” formula work very well. As Rhett E. Aimfire, a Machiavellain Frenchman with an ego as outrageous as his Napoleonic costume, Michael B. Hoagland ’07 is great. Using his wiry frame to great effect, and always turning with a flourish of his glittering cape, Hoagland’s humor is terrifically focused, less concerned with cueing the audience for laughs than making sure there is something worth laughing...