Word: patients
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Actually, I figured out why UHS is so cheap. It is because they are so cheap. A doctor who will see a walk-in patient and not hand him a $75 medical bill and harass him 'til he's paid it just isn't a very good doctor. If the UHS doctors were good, they could charge a lot more and they would be too busy to let anyone get away with just walking in any time...
Also, good doctors get good patients. Their patients are all wealthy which means they are smarter than the average guy who just happens to be the turkey waiting at UHS to get inferior treatment, which proves how dumb he is; and he is the kind of patient UHS gets, which proves that their doctors are not any good or they would get better patients...
Although New Pathway is more than just a primary care program, many of the students enrolled are strongly inclined towards community medicine, and the program itself fosters a concern for the individual patient, according to first-year participant Mari S. Miller. "There are quite a number who have interests in primary care. A lot are discovering how much they enjoy getting to know the patients," she says...
...slow its passage, how to testify about a fugitive world that changes as he looks. The impressionist view--a motif, or the approximation of one, seen and completed in a few hours--is not for Lopez. His paintings come out of the most patient scrutiny in contemporary art. The panoramic view of downtown Madrid that is the show's centerpiece took eight years to finish, from 1974 to 1982. Muted and austere, almost palpably grimy and smoggy, it sets forth miles of the dull high-rise architecture of Franco's economic boom with a dedication to truth that surpasses Canaletto...
...command over the medium unique in 20th century realism. Who else has achieved such finesse of tone, such a steely grasp of hallucinatory detail within the ordinary, such a disdain for visual clutter? At their best, the drawings are a mesmerizing conjunction of opposites. On one hand, the patient surface, rubbed and reworked to a silvery bloom punctuated with dark points of attention, anxiously tender and very seductive to the eye; on the other, a kind of silent rawness, a persistent undercurrent of anguish about the worth of what can be seen. It is the very reverse of academic...