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Even more insidious is the danger of overtreatment. With well-insured patients inclined toward hypervigilance, doctors afraid of missing something and a reimbursement system that rewards testing over talking, there is embedded in the system a dangerous impulse toward excess. Specialists are typically paid much more to do a procedure than the family doctor who takes the time to talk through the treatment options. A doctor who does a biopsy may be paid as much as $1,600 for 15 minutes' work, notes Dr. Jerome Groopman of Harvard Medical School. "If you're an internist, you can easily spend...
...them in their sleep. Even the residents may agree: in a 2006 study in the American Journal of Medicine, both residents and attending physicians reported that they thought the risk of bad things happening because of fragmentation of care was greater than the risk from fatigue due to excess work hours. Other residents say that while they may feel more rested, they sense that they are not learning as much or as fast as they need...
...perfectly off of his fellow performers, although at times a perceptible synchronization gap widened between the soloist and orchestra. Still, Jackiw’s piercing violin danced atop the rejoicing orchestra in a stunning show of his instrument’s full capacity. Careening sometimes to a bit of excess, Jackiw nevertheless delivered a performance that earned him the audience’s adulation. Following intermission, the orchestra returned to a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 4” after Yannatos remarked on the end of the year as “always...
...Quad—they’re on the third floor of Holmes in singles serving as miniscule doubles. “My blockmate said it was like getting Quaded twice,” says Milo Harman. “There is no room for excess, therefore we have no excess,” says Cara E. Ferrentino of the one-room “cozy nook” she shares with her roommate. Apparently, a Zen attitude can make even Holmes’s communal bathrooms tolerable. These rooms all share one common trait: They?...
...conspicuous consumption: four two-hour blocks of episodes drawn from the show's previous seasons. To witness such unself-conscious acquisitiveness in one sitting is like eating an entire normal-kid birthday-party sheet cake, wax decorative candles and all. There's the same queasy sense of monochromatic excess because all the shows are alike, from the fake panic that the party may not happen to the scary-sexy dry humping on the dance floor. And no matter what the nominal theme of the party--California beach party, Moulin Rouge, the color pink--each guest of honor is really after...