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...Wrong Prescription," Dr. Scott Haig correctly suggests that digital medical records are no silver bullet for the costly, inefficient U.S. health system, but for the wrong reasons [April 6]. Information technology (IT) improves efficiency with the rules of the game currently in play. If the rules reward treating disease complications but discourage management and prevention, IT will help health-care businesses churn out more complications per hour. The fundamental flaw in our current system is that despite decades of debate, no one has an adequate stake in preventing those costly complications in the first place. Steve Brown, WOODSIDE, CALIF...
...Haig's warnings may apply to for-profit medical insurance and hospitals, but there are alternatives. In my HMO, Kaiser Permanente, medical decisions are made by doctors. Medical records have been online for years. Copays are low, and there are no cutoffs for the cost of surgery, hospitalization or other care. Prescription drugs are covered. And premiums are lower than those of for-profit plans. If Barack Obama's health-coverage plan is modeled on one like mine, then everybody can win. Phil Bond, ELK GROVE, CALIF...
...Nichifor over Ermakov at No. 3. At No. 4, a similarly resilient Harvard performance by Felton wasn’t enough to prevent defeat—the freshman went down 3-6, 6-3, 6-7 (7-9) after a tense third-set tiebreaker with Haig Schneiderman...
...Haig is an assistant clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons...
...legislation] was really this sort of thing that we were given that we had to modify,” said Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Professor David A. Haig, who added he would have preferred to see a distribution requirement. “I thought there was never any real serious bit of philosophical discussions of the pros and cons of different forms of general education...