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...doctors think they're the ones who are in the best position to know what malpractice means and when it happens), there is little or no correlation between doing bad stuff and getting sued. We also observe that none of the countries whose medical systems are held up to us as better than ours has any malpractice system at all. And the cost of defensive medicine is enormous - much higher than published estimates...
...full committee votes on each applicant, in a “one person one vote” process, the decisions are made, and the applications return to Anderson in the file room. THE FATE OF THE PAPER Students who are accepted and decide to matriculate have their applications held at the Freshman Dean’s Office where they later form the “nucleus” of what eventually becomes the student’s college record, McGrath says. Once students graduate, the folders go to the University’s archives. Applications from rejected students are kept...
Global health experts addressed the potentially devastating implications of global hunger and encouraged students to raise local awareness at a symposium held in the Science Center yesterday evening. Participants in the four-person discussion, entitled “The Ingredients of Food Security,” included Howard A. Zucker, the former assistant director-general of the World Health Organization, along with colleagues in economics, political science, and humanitarian outreach. Zucker began the event by asking attendees to consider the amount of food that goes to waste during an average restaurant dinner. “Now just imagine...
...email.Kantrovitz hopes to bring his findings and experience at Harvard to his new job with the Athletics. He was hired by Oakland earlier this year by the team’s Assistant General Manager—who just happens to be David Forst, the guy who had shortstop held down at Harvard when Kantrovitz looked at the school for the first time.Forst insists that Kantrovitz was good enough to find playing time no matter who was in front of him on the depth chart, while Kantrovitz is equally sure that he would have been hard-pressed to see daylight...
...trade between Asian economies is picking up, that trend lends weight to the belief held by many economists that Asia could emerge from the recession ahead of the U.S. and Europe, based primarily on improved economic activity within the region. "Intra-regional trade will play a much more important role in a recovery (in Asia) than people thought," says Andrew Freris, senior investment strategist for Asia at BNP Paribas Wealth Management in Hong Kong. "And that is good news." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...