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...residents now learn medicine was developed by Sir William Osler at the beginning of the 20th century. It was great back then. Doctors lived in the hospital; that's why they're called residents. Patients also resided in the hospital sometimes for weeks at a time. So everybody got a chance to see interesting patients, interesting pathology. That's not the way it is now. We have to figure out ways to make up for the fact that patients buzz through the hospital, mostly staying three days or less, and residents spend less than 80 hours a week...
...procedures are cheaper and safer. I for one will proudly take steroids when they finally make ones that don't ruin your health, necessitate a shot, or require you to keep going to the gym after taking them. I pretty much stopped caring what I looked like once I got married...
Still, considering the buildup to this weekend's town-hall meetings (the President has one more, on Saturday afternoon in Grand Junction, Colo.), the proceedings within were civil. Outside the hangar, angry vocal exchanges erupted, but no one got physical. (Read a story about Montanans gearing up for Obama's visit...
...President got pointed questions when he called on members of the audience, none of whom appeared to have been prescreened. Randy Rathie from far-off Ekalaka, Mont., introduced himself as a "proud NRA member" who gets his news from the cable channels, and said he had heard a lot of talk from Obama and the Democrats about reforming health care, which he indicated he wasn't quite buying. "You can't tell us how we're going to pay for this. You'll have to raise our taxes, when you said you wouldn't." Obama responded by outlining...
...thanks to enormous infrastructure construction and brisk sales for new autos and apartments. That means it would appear to have little leverage in pursuit of the price cuts on iron ore that it seeks: a 45% reduction from last year's record levels. (Japan and South Korean steelmakers got cuts of 33% from 2008 levels...