Word: hopkinses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another wise investment: devote more research to finding out which procedures and drugs are most effective. If doctors can be supplied with better, consensual guidelines about what works in treating various ailments, they will feel less pressure to do things on a just-in-case basis. They also will be...
SOLUTION: Standardize insurance fees. Maryland did so 20 years ago. Partly as a result, the cost of a hospital stay at top-rated Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, which was 25% above the national average before the system was put in place, is now 7% below the average. Louis Sullivan, the...
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Katherine Mihok, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, Nancy McD. Chase, Georgia Harbison, Anne Hopkins, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Sidney Urquhart
David feels guilty for his success because he thinks it depends on luck. He lives in constant fear that his luck will run out. Throughout the play, Hopkins subtly portrays David's insecurity. For example, when Gus Eberson (Theodore Caplow) mysteriously appears and helps David fix his car, he looks...
Later, when the other characters are musing on the nature of luck, Hopkins cries out in frustration, "Everything I touch turns to gold! What is it about me?" Even when David achieves success, his lack of confidence cripples him.