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Cornclt's Megan McMahon brought the home team within one before halftime deflecting interesting pass into...
...have to bite the bullet and ask themselves if they really need all those tests." Physicians who routinely order nose-to-toes X rays or prescribe the latest and most costly antibiotic may be taken to task by department heads. Those who refuse to repent, warns A.H.A. President McMahon, may eventually lose their admitting privileges...
Traditionally, minor operations like those now performed at surgery centers have provided hospitals with revenues that could subsidize less profitable services, like open-heart surgery. But the American Hospital Association has taken no stand against the rival movement. Says A.H.A. President Alex McMahon: "We in the hospital industry can't object to quality surgical centers just because their procedures are less expensive to the patient...
When there are no patients in the lab McMahon spends her time "scoring," that is translating the scribbling on the one third to one-half mile of paper generated in a night's monitoring into readable numbers. Each 20-second unit is assigned a number corresponding to the depth of the sleep during the period, and then marked on a grid. Those numbers can be led into a computer to aid the diagnosis of the disorder. The strips of paper are used so that both sides are written on, and they are microfilmed and thrown away. The microfilm is kept...
...That's one of the problems with working in a lab like this-you tend to develop a sleep disorder yourself.' Margaret A. McMahon...