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...whom do you go to for what? Unless you have a close friend or relative in medicine, you still need a good generalist - someone who knows you and knows the ropes. This is going to take effort and maybe some money; there are fewer of them and HMO fees are so low that many won't take on new patients except as a favor. This is especially true for the good ones who really spend time and develop a relationship with their patients. Internists vary tremendously. Some treat everything, some just do check-ups and referrals. If competent, the former...
...urban environments" on their med school applications.) Now that a cataracts pays $600, there are maybe a couple kids per class going into the eye field. Because specialists did more training, because they use more expensive parts and pills, because they (might) handle more dangerous situations, because there are fewer of them, they tend to get more money than generalists...
When Bush came to office--installed by the Supreme Court after receiving fewer votes than Al Gore--I speculated that the new President would have to govern in a bipartisan manner to be successful. He chose the opposite path, and his hyper-partisanship has proved to be a travesty of governance and a comprehensive failure. I've tried to be respectful of the man and the office, but the three defining sins of the Bush Administration--arrogance, incompetence, cynicism--are congenital: they're part of his personality. They're not likely to change. And it is increasingly difficult to imagine...
...entitled, “Are Men Necessary?”, in which she muses over whether or not women should bother making time for men in their lives at all. Though the book did receive some harsh criticism (and I imagine Dowd’s been on fewer dates since its publication), I somehow doubt a book entitled, “Are Women Necessary?”, would be the bestseller that Dowd’s book was. No, such a book would surely be condemned as sexist writing and exiled to the shelves of some backwater bookshelf...
Among the top 10 to 15 schools, “rankings are relatively stable,” Morse said. Each year he has fielded fewer and fewer media calls about the lists, he said...