Word: happened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Personally, I was real fired up, I had something to prove," Menick said. "A lot of people may be losing respect for Harvard because we were 0-3 coming into this game, and I'm saying to myself going into this game I'm not going to let that happen...
...doesn't have the usual complaints of "heartbreak"--brought to you by the WakeMed hospital's new Heart Center in Raleigh. Or a Duke ad--the sort of tasteful, care-focused spot you'd expect from a prestigious academic hospital--in which the real-life doctors featured just happen to be a hunky, ready-for-ER specialist and a looker of a female general practitioner...
...involves an antiarrhythmia drug that had passed clinical trials, was approved by the FDA and was being given to thousands of patients before it was discovered that the drug was killing some patients. "You'd think that doctors would notice people falling over dead," says Califf. "But these things happen over years." These problems not only happen over time; they also often happen in patients who had other medical conditions that might have killed them. And they happen amid a large pool of people who are doing well on the drug...
...days, vastly complicating her plans to breast-feed her baby. Thompson went to the nurses' station and begged for one more day. The nurses told her she could call her insurer, but they didn't hold out much hope. "They said, 'No way. That's not going to happen,'" Thompson recalls...
...happen. Her doctor called Peter Jacobi, medical director of PrimaHealth, and Jacobi authorized an additional day. Thompson's saga sounds like one of those sepia-toned HMO commercials: dub in the triumphant music, fade out with mother embracing child. But this is no ad, nor is PrimaHealth an HMO. It's a rarer species in the managed-care jungle, called an independent-practice association. IPAs are groups of doctors who band together to act like HMOs. Some medical observers believe that if IPAs like PrimaHealth spread, they could make managed care a lot more patient-friendly...