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...switch his clothing to the dryers, you decide to pay him a favor and courteously dump his wet clothing on the nearest nominally clean surface, convincing yourself that the sticky goo is water, not congealed detergent. At long last you can start your laundry--the first of six loads--and the odyssey has begun. And for the next three hours, you trek back and forth switching each load...
Inevitably, however, when you have one load in the washer and one in the drier, you get an e-mail from your TF reminding you about that problem set you forgot to turn in last Friday. Dinner comes next and only later that evening do you remember your long-neglected laundry, returning to find that some equally courteous person has dumped your wet clothes on that puddle of goo--what a jerk, couldn't he tell that it wasn't water?--and your dried clothes have returned to the dust-bunny lair from whence they came...
Managed care was meant to lighten the load on emergency services by emphasizing affordable preventive care that would keep people out of the ED. Instead, says Dr. Vincent Markovchick, emergency-services chief at Denver Health Medical Center, "the exact opposite has happened." Like many ED docs, he contends that primary-care physicians--feeling overworked and discouraged from doing expensive "extra" tests like an MRIs or EKGs--often hand off patients to the ED. Now patients who turn up there are sicker than ever before. Today 20% of visitors are admitted to the hospital, compared with around 12% a decade...
...Internet to receive digital images sent by friends and family anywhere in the world. It rotates up to 10 pictures at a time and has a $3 monthly fee. Digi-Frame plans to offer a similar display this spring for $400 that uses Smartmedia and CompactFlash cards to load new pics...
...admits his new job will contribute to a "heavy load" but "right now, I'm planning to do it in the course of current work," he said...