Search Details

Word: painful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2010-2019
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...think most doctors would expect that? No. A lot of the reaction is, 'My God, another piece of paperwork? It's just a waste of time.' We had 20% in our surveys [of doctors who adopted the checklist in a study] that still felt it was a pain, a waste of time; they didn't want to use it. Of course, we asked them a follow-up question: If they were having an operation, would they want the checklist? And 94% of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atul Gawande: How to Make Doctors Better | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

...tech-heavy list. Tweet (and any variation thereof) is included, as is the verb form of friend (as in friending or unfriending someone). App - as a shortened word for application - is another offender. And at the end of a rough financial year, much of the jargon of economic pain has run its course: In these economic times, toxic assets and too big to fail have no place in 2010. (See the top 10 buzzwords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Say No More: The Banned Words of 2010 | 1/2/2010 | See Source »

Previous | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | Next