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Robert G. Norton, president of the Deaconess Hospital, says he is less concerned with the way in which the cuts in Medicare are brought about than the actual magnitude of those cuts and the speed with which they're carried...
...industry believes that there doesn't need to be change," Norton says. "The issue I have is with the speed of the change and the depth of the change. My own view is that the bills currently in Congress call for that change to be far too fast and far too deep...
...Norton says it is important that health care reform move slowly so as not to overwhelm the public. Much of the confusion right now, he says, especially among senior citizens' groups, is a result of reformers trying to push ahead too quickly...
...pace of change in the industry isn't in any way understood by the consumers of the product. It takes time to change their thinking on this issue," Norton says. "If you try to change the system before changing people's thinking, the patients are negatively affected in the process...
...first perusal Thomas Beller's debut short-story collection, Seduction Theory (Norton; 205 pages; $21), appears as though it might be the chic literary equivalent of the TV comedy Friends. Beller, 30, is the co-founder of a talked-about Manhattan fiction journal, Open City, and the characters who people his 10 witty stories are plucked straight from a hyperexposed world of young, well-bred New Yorkers hopelessly flustered by attraction, ever fearful of love...