Word: field
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...realize right now that any serious health care reform that's going to take place in this country will require invigoration of the field of primary care," said Andrew F. Singer, a third-year medical resident training in primary care at the Harvard affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital. "We think that HMS and other leading medical institutions have an important role to play in paving the way forward for primary care...
...Experts say that this dwindling supply of primary care doctors, largely due to the traditionally unappealing pay and work hours for those in the field, has exacerbated a crisis in the nation's health care system, which is already dealing with tens of millions of aging baby boomers and uninsured Americans. Increasing the number of primary care doctors and researchers is seen as vital to supporting a reformed national health care system, as well as improving patients' everyday health...
...Harvard, where specialty medicine and research have traditionally been heralded, some continue to feel that HMS can and needs to do more to support primary care by providing financial support and elevating the field's stature within the community. The HMS Joseph B. Martin Loan Forgiveness Initiative allows third-year students pursuing specialties in primary care, family medicine, and psychiatry to receive up to $60,000 in debt reduction, but the circulating petition states that loan forgiveness can only be "one component of a multi-pronged strategy to boost student interest" and that HMS must work to do so throughout...
...single greatest existence in the world." In the first couple years I worked at the A.V. Club, I'd tell people that I was a critic. My family members would say, "Your cousin Lloyd wanted to be a film critic. Now he's a hot dog vendor at Wrigley Field." But then after a few years, my life kept having these strange parallels. I grew up in the same neighborhood as Siskel. I decided to go bald just like him. We went to the same elementary school...
...June 24, ABC debuted a controversial new medical drama: Barack Obama, M.D. Actually titled Questions for the President: Prescription for America, the town-hall forum sat the POTUS down to field questions about his plans to overhaul the health-care system. Before it aired, Republicans criticized it as an infomercial that would allow Obama to sell his platform to a vast prime-time audience...