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Distorted Reflection Beppe Severgnini is right that in order to get rid of Berlusconi, the media-mogul Prime Minister, Italians must first learn to shed the Berlusconi inside them [An Italian Mirror, May 11]. So, what are we waiting for? Marco Guizzardi, BOLOGNA, ITALY...
...records. It is small (population: 5 million) with a tech-savvy citizenry and a public sector-run health system. Trust in the government is high. Most crucially, when the health service established a National Patient Registry in 1977 - a system that required doctors to file patient visit details in order to be reimbursed for their work - the country unknowingly laid the groundwork for electronic health records by putting in place centralized record-keeping...
...only does the equation make hard-nosed sense in a public-health system, its use can reduce costs in other ways. Eager to gain NICE's approval, drug companies have started giving away portions of expensive treatment for free in Britain in order to ensure their drugs meet the threshold. Sir Michael Rawlins, chairman of NICE, believes that if the U.S. adopted a similar system, it would revolutionize the culture of major pharmaceutical companies, many of which spend more on marketing than research and development. A 2008 study in the New England Journal of Medicine predicted that incorporating information about...
Right now, neither pride nor condescension is the order of the day. Revelations of the tawdry behavior of modern MPs - expensing everything from improvements to second homes to their spouse's porn - have led to popular outrage in Britain and claimed the scalp of the Speaker of the House of Commons, a supposedly above-the-fray symbol of Parliament's reputation. The scandal has exposed what anyone who has spent time in the House of Commons knows well; that many of its members are has-beens and never-will-bes, self-important rhetoricians inebriated (as one truly great parliamentarian said...
...think we need to get right to work when we get back to school so that we can be as prepared as possible come Feb. 1. During season I think we have to remember how important every single game is and focus on practice every day in order to get the job done come game time...