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...crisis in terms of responsiveness and credibility. My basic ideology revolved around the premise that in a prepaid health plan the consumer should be informed, involved and influential. At that time there were almost no sources of information about services, policies, or staff; there were no established channels for feedback, grievances or consumer input into planning; there were no mechanisms to reach out into the community and actively involve its members in the workings of their health service. As I saw it, it was "us" against "them," consumers and providers working at odds rather than together...
...advocates' objections to IRRC's role are "absurd," Farber said in an interview. "We are not in competition. The excellent feedback we've been getting proves we're performing a service that institutions want and that existing groups simply can't perform," Farber said...
...difference between Matisse's contemplation of his own works and the arid feedback one gets in so much art today is enormous. It is a matter of sensual wholeness. The blue of the Dance invades the painted room, drenching its space in an oceanic full ness of hue. In it, the hot pink of the chair back and table legs and vase glows with preternatural intensity. Color for Matisse was not a property of objects. It was the stuff of which they were made. And space itself was less a describable structure-which it was for Picasso or Braque...
...letting a subject know (by means of a light or other signal) whenever he succeeds in emitting alpha. Capitalizing on the widespread hunger for instant nirvana, commercial promoters are selling "alpha machines" for home use and opening "alpha training institutes." According to Psychologist Thomas Mulholland, chairman of the Bio-Feedback Research Society, these attract chiefly "the naive, the desperate and the superstitious...
Allison also said that the frequent quizzes offer a valuable feedback mechanism to weekly sections. "If my students all fail a quiz testing a major concept, I have an indication of who is really at fault," she said...