Word: nephrologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found less effective in some studies. "I'm sure the hospital has lost a lot of money on many of my patients, but they've never told me about it," he says. Dunn contends it is more willing to refer patients to expensive specialists. Dr. Theresa Travis, a Dunn nephrologist who spends about 20% of her time at Bedford Regional, says she often sees patients with traditional insurance months ahead of HMO patients with similar conditions. "Managed-care patients are always referred very late," she says, in some cases making kidney failure more likely...
...University of Florida nephrologist, Dr. Robert Cade, concocted Gatorade in 1965 to sustain the school's football team. The Stokely-Van Camp Co. acquired the formula and turned the drink into a moneymaker, before being acquired by Quaker in 1983. "Though it may have been developed a long time ago," says Gatorade's Dyer, "nobody has been able to come up with a way that will improve how the product works...