Word: paracelsus
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...doctors," who allow hospitalized patients to exceed the DRG ceiling, and of "good doctors," who boost hospital profits by discharging their patients quickly. Physicians reported they were under pressure not to admit complicated cases that might prove costly to treat. And, at seven hospitals operated by the Paracelsus Health Care Corp. of Pasadena, Calif., doctors receive bonuses if costs are kept within DRG range. This practice is now under federal investigation...
...that a certain resentment of official art and its newly founded instrument, the Royal Academy, was built into him. Like many other such craftsmen at the time, he was possibly a Mason. Certainly he felt like an outsider, and was fascinated by the ideas of the 16th century alchemist Paracelsus, the mystic Jakob Bohme and his contemporary, Emanuel Swedenborg. He was not, of course, the only Englishman to be caught up with these visionaries and cranks, but there was no major artist on whom their ideas had more influence. Blake's imagery of transcendence and spiritual transformation through direct "knowing...