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...number of negligent or incompetent doctors endanger patients and drive up malpractice-insurance costs for everyone. Since 1990, one-third of malpractice awards and settlements have resulted from just 5% of doctors making such payouts, according to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB). Yet doctors and hospitals too often fail to discipline repeat offenders...
...they stay in and play Truth or Dare (though without the tequila I remember being a key part of the game). One night they take a collective dare to achieve a dream in a year's time. Wong follows them as they try and, for the most part, utterly fail...
...knew that there were many who did. There were probably enough of them to form a political party - with a chance of government perhaps - but what would such a party do if it was in power? Nothing, she imagined. It would try to pass legislation, but would fail. - From The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency...
...Mahmoud Abbas is in a very lonely place just days after having been rolled out onto the international stage as the new hope of the Palestinians. The barrage of criticism has come not only from those with a vested interest in seeing his pursuit of the "roadmap" fail - the militant groups waging the armed intifadah, and Arafat - but also on the streets. Among those who bothered to pay attention to the meeting in Aqaba, there was widespread anger at the perception that Abbas had said many things the Israelis and Americans wanted to hear, but had avoided articulating Palestinian grievances...
...best asset Arafat, Hamas and others looking for Abbas to fail have going for them is the situation on the ground in the West Bank and Gaza, where millions of ordinary Palestinians struggle to survive amid the privations of constant Israeli closures and military incursions. Abbas desperately needs an easing of those conditions in order to demonstrate that his way can bring positive change to Palestinian lives. But Israel's actions are guided by its security concerns, and there may not be much more than symbolic gestures towards the Palestinians until the PA security forces launch a crackdown. Abbas...