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...combination of hard work, high risk and low pay has made the general surgery specialty nearly as unattractive to new doctors as primary-care medicine. The statistics are grim: a report in the journal Surgery places the nationwide general-surgeon shortage at 1,300 currently, and estimates that the country will be at least 6,000 surgeons short by the time you need your colon removed...
...present study stemmed from previous epidemiological research finding that members of the general population with high levels of urate were less likely to develop Parkinson’s in later years...
...popular mechanics side of America,” he says. “When they were making the George Washington Bridge between Manhattan and New Jersey, the New Jersey and New York governments who designed it had a plan to cover the iron ore with marble. Somehow the general population heard about this and they said, ‘Just leave the steel exposed.’ It’s a basic American feeling to want to see how something was made...
...wrote for the same reader I always write for—the educated general reader,” says Ruth R. Wisse, Professor of Yiddish and Comparative Literature, who contributed an entry on Saul Bellow. “So if you’re using a literary term which is not immediately comprehensible, then it is your duty to explain it. Clarity is the one thing you aim for most...
Contributors and reviewers referenced the general reader most frequently as the expected consumer of “Literary History,” but even they expressed concern that such an audience simply does not exist anymore...