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...which includes keeping track of which patients receive a 30-day supply of one of 21 generic drugs. Among the latest to sign on is Medica, Minnesota's largest HMO, which installed MedVantx machines in 10 clinics this month. According to Medica's medical director, Dr. Ted Loftness, a mere 1% increase in generic prescriptions could save the company more than $6 million a year. --By Julie Rawe and Sarah Sturmon Dale
Doctors who specialize in managing pain say this need not be so. Perhaps the biggest reason so many patients suffer more than they should is the tendency among doctors and patients alike to see pain as a mere sideshow--a vexing side effect of arthritis, a herniated disc, cancer or trauma--rather than what it is: a serious and consequential health issue in its own right. A long-suffering Michigan physician and mother of three, who asks that her name not be used, knows this both as a doctor and as a patient whose life has been compromised by severe...
Alternately, usage of the word “wedge” carries a somewhat darker connotation than mere political advantage-seeking. This is the current of thought that suggests politicians are trying to distract voters from the important economic issues at hand with dramatic and irresolvable moral questions, questions that government really has no business associating itself with in the first place...
...doing so, Penn has opened up a two-game lead in the loss column over its nearest Ivy competitors and seems to be just nine mere “formalities” away from heading to an exotic site like Boise, Idaho or Worcester, Mass...
With or without a diploma, not everyone getting married at Memorial Church uses their Ivy League intellect. Edington tells of a groom who decided to get his hair cut mere minutes before the start of the ceremony. But that’s not the all-time best wedding blooper. According to Edington, that honor belongs to “the bride who asked, just before the wedding began, whether the best man could stand in for the groom—because the groom ‘isn’t feeling well today.’ Answer: very, very...