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Schultz, who oversaw Fallon’s expansion from a local health insurance provider to the state’s fourth largest health insurer, said in an interview with The Boston Globe that he would work to make health care more affordable for Harvard Pilgrim’s members...
...COAL POT This new venture by fourth-generation locals is not to be missed. Located at Rawlins, a vibrantly colored village of colonial clapperboard chattel houses at Herbert Heights, the Coal Pot, tel: (1-869) 665 6926, offers stunning views from its 365-meter elevation and a menu of local favorites from chef Llewellyn Clarke, who trained at London's Le Caprice and Ivy restaurants. Try the seared local fish with thyme...
...Local input is just as crucial on the physical-therapy side - especially if Haiti is going to be more accepting of amputees. At the Medishare complex, which is now the largest hospital in Haiti, disaster volunteers like Miami podiatrist Dr. Sandra Garcia-Ortiz have begun training Haitians in recent days to help amputees properly care for wounds. If those injuries go neglected, for example, the limbs can become flexed, or too rigid for prostheses to work. "Our hope," says Garcia-Ortiz, "is that enough Haitians will see that there are too many amputees for them to ignore now, and that...
...Indonesia's health care system turn me into one of those expats who left the country at the slightest hint of a sore throat. I may have been skeptical of undergoing any major procedure in the country where I've been living since 1994, but I was pretty confident local doctors could handle a run-of-the-mill condition like vernal conjunctivitis. I was wrong...
...Jakarta, the more horror stories emerge. One person I contacted reached a settlement in a similar case, though it cost her an eye. Others feared the prospects of a legal battle similar to one endured by Prita Mulyasari, a working class Jakarta woman who dared to criticize a local hospital and spent months facing down its lawyers. She has become something of an icon for all that is wrong with Indonesia's health care system. I don't know what I'll do yet, but I commend Mulyasari for having the courage to challenge a system that...