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...financially, is the mouth and esophagus of a hungrier billing animal. And not just in hospital practice. Private medical practices, whose incomes have been driven down over the years by decreasing insurance reimbursements, are hiring computerized record/billing companies in droves. Their promise? To create electronic medical records that comply completely with coding requirements. This way the practice can bill more and improve its bottom line, even after paying the billing company for its services, which run 6 to 10 percent of gross. The insurers got computers so the doctors are getting them too. It's an arms race - though, unfortunately...
Though Samir's words cannot be put into Benedict's mouth, it is widely acknowledged that the Jesuit scholar continues to enjoy great favor in the Pope's inner circle, which includes Monsignor Khaled Akasheh, head of the Muslim section of the Vatican's Council for Interreligious Dialogue, who is considered an intellectual ally of Samir. "It is not that he is inspired by me," Samir says of the Pope. "We just have the same line of thinking on this subject. Without being a specialist of Islam, His Holiness has a vast culture and knowledge in human and world religious...
...biggest thing I see is his leadership,” Weiss says. “He’s not afraid to open his mouth. He’ll call himself out, too. He’s really added a lot, and allows other people to open their mouths as well...
Every customer sits on a stylish acrylic toilet (lid down) designed with images of roses, seashells or Renaissance paintings. Everyone dines at a glass table with a sink underneath. The servers bring your meal atop a mini toilet bowl (quite convenient, as it brings the food closer to your mouth), you sip drinks from your own plastic urinal (a souvenir), and soft-swirl ice cream arrives for dessert atop a dish shaped like a squat toilet. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
Still, it's been working for me. "Feedback is great," says Dr. Gerald Neuberg, a cardiologist in New York City and an old friend, whom I called for a second opinion. "It's engaging and motivating. If I had a calorie meter reading everything I put in my mouth, I would surely slow down my eating." In fact, that would perfect the system: a nose-mounted camera that measures caloric intake. Perhaps someday...