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...probably haven't heard much about the assistant surgeon, but all the same, it might interest you to know that we're running out of them. In teaching hospitals, the assistant surgeon in most operating rooms is a senior resident or fellow - a medical-school graduate who is in training to become a surgeon. (Sometimes a medical student or intern, a first-year resident, may scrub in as well.) The assistant role of the surgical resident is to learn and gain experience, from just watching to doing the whole procedure. There is some pressure on academic surgeons...
According to co-author Adam Galinsky, a social psychologist at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, society relies on incentives, in the form of rewards and punishments, to encourage people to conform to certain standards of behavior. "Economists and even psychologists haven't been paying much attention to the fact that small changes in our environment can have dramatic effects on behavior. We underemphasize these subtle environmental cues," he says...
...they didn't do it as much or as thoroughly as they should have. Within her family, Quispe thinks the public-health campaign has been a success: "Normally both Nayeli and my 3-year-old son have constant stomachaches or diarrhea. But in the last few months, they just haven't had those issues," she says...
...right before the ball crossed the goal line, Crimson junior defender Katie Kuzma made a crucial sliding stop. The play helped secure Harvard’s (7-5-1, 4-0 Ivy) exciting 3-2 victory over Yale (8-5, 3-1 Ivy). The win in New Haven also maintained the Crimson’s perfect league record...
...Still, there's no guarantee the AMA or other physicians' groups will ultimately support health-care reform. "We haven't seen the Senate bill," AMA president Dr. J. James Rohack said at a press conference Tuesday urging passage of the 10-year freeze. "So once we get that out there then I'll be able to answer that question." Courting health-care interest groups one giant giveaway bill at a time is a risky tactic by Democrats, who also are hearing from hospitals demanding fixes for their payments and insurers asking that cuts to Medicare Advantage be reinstated. And, clearly...