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...inflammation of the small, thin pouch attached to a segment of the large intestine in the lower right abdomen, but often, when the diagnosis is less than clear, they err on the side of caution, recommending surgery - the alternative is to risk a burst appendix, which in fact happens frequently enough while patients wait for test results. According to past studies, somewhere between 3% and 30% of all appendectomies may be in patients who do not actually have appendicitis - conditions often mistaken for appendicitis include constipation, gastroenteritis and ovarian cysts, for example - and as many as 45% of surgeries happen...
...that's partly because the online-book world - unlike the real-life Amazon - isn't particularly biodiverse yet. If publishers aren't in a position to check Amazon directly, the market is, or it will be. There will be some painful scenes while we wait for that to happen, but already Google - a company that never met a loss leader it didn't like - has announced its intention to start selling e-books before the end of the year. Simon & Schuster has just announced a plan to sell digital copies of its books through the e-book website Scribd.com...
When asked whether it was even possible to determine what happened to all the money Congress rushed last fall to financial institutions, she said, "It's a wonderful irony, isn't it? Once Paulson gave this money away on a no-strings basis, it became effectively impossible to trace it." But, she says, it won't happen again: "It's a $300 billion mistake that we will not repeat...
...just after the crash, "they've got to be disabused of that notion by Monday's 500-point movement." The crash also demonstrated that prices didn't follow the statistical model of a random walk--if they did, a 20% one-day market drop like that of 1987 should happen only once in billions upon billions of years...
...recent history in Massachusetts makes it clear that covering the uninsured cannot happen in a vacuum. In fact, more people with access to health care will be a burden on the system, including EDs, without other reforms that address problems like not having enough primary-care physicians. Senator Max Baucus, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, which is taking the lead role in writing health-care legislation, recently told the American Academy of Family Physicians that "meaningful, comprehensive reform must increase the value placed on primary care and redefine the role that primary care provides in our health system...