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...alternative? Hospitals that are flush can hire PAs to assist; the one where I work does. But most can't afford the hefty expense of PAs. Even the hospitals that have the funds don't have enough to hire PAs for every case. So I often end up begging older colleagues or a surgeon waiting for the start of his own case for a "freebie"; I'm playing on goodwill, friendship or the promise of his eventually getting a paying case...
...differences in reproductive ability. But Jones argues that variation in female fertility - as measured in the Framingham study - is a much less important factor in human evolution than differences in male fertility. Sperm hold a much higher chance of carrying an error or mutation than an egg, especially among older men. "While it used to be that men had many children in older age to many different women, now men tend to have only a few children at a younger age with one wife. The drop in the number of older fathers has had a major effect on the rate...
Using Medicare data for nearly 9,000 patients, Hu compared the number of claims filed for complications resulting from the decade-old minimally invasive form of radical prostatectomy with claims following the older, traditional form of the surgery...
...immortalized in Falling Down. It's still sitting on a fault line. Its expensive housing, even after the real estate crash, poses a real obstacle to the dream of upward mobility. So do its public schools and other public services, which have been deteriorating for years - in part because older white voters have been reluctant to subsidize younger minorities. (Watch TIME's 10 Questions video with Nancy Pelosi...
...older in numerical age I get even more radical and fearless,” said...