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Other teaching hospitals are following similar strategies, with some variations. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, saw the managed-care wave coming and hatched a particularly wide array of responses. For one thing, it standardized purchasing of such supplies as knee braces and rods for broken bones. It orders in bulk and demands discounts. Meanwhile, Mayo has a thriving side business in newsletters, books and cd-roms...
...Mayo was quicker than many research institutions to build a medical network of its own. It has merged with two other Rochester hospitals, opened clinics in Jacksonville, Florida, and Scottsdale, Arizona, and joined nine other clinics and five hospitals with a total of nearly 1,450 physicians over a wide area of Minnesota and neighboring Wisconsin and Iowa. Like old-time circuit riders, Mayo physicians regularly visit these facilities to provide specialized care and pass on the latest medical developments; they have also begun to consult by computer. And Mayo One, the hospital's emergency medical helicopter, can rush patients...
Nationally, the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota has asimilar plant, although it is smaller thanHarvard...
...wrong. I know that honest work is honest work. My father is a farmworker and my mother a housewife and seamstress, and so I have had the experience of being a member of the Lumpenproletariat (which somehow seemed appropriate, since Karl Marx's birthday always falls on Cinco de Mayo). However, Harvard is supposed to be a pass to bigger and better things, and I hadn't expected to end up shoveling popcorn into Value Size cardboard containers. Soon enough that enterprising Harvard spirit set in: I set my sights on being employee of the month. I was sure that...
...distributed. The bone-thin models in the fashion ads seem to live only in slivers of the U.S. along the two coasts -- primarily in New York City and Los Angeles. The people in the country's midsection, points out Dr. Michael Jensen, who treats obese people at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, tend to be beefier. "There's a lot less social pressure to maintain a lean weight in the Midwest," he says...