Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where she practiced decided to stop using her services. In her memoir, Leading with My Heart, she described her feeling that the first incident provided an opening for enemies who had been after her for a while. "I had done all I, or anybody, could have done for [the patient]. Nevertheless, you could almost hear the drumbeats starting. All over town, my enemies had caught the scent of blood...
They probably won't pay off immediately, but small stocks will reward the patient, as they always have before when they were this much cheaper than the large caps. If you don't have time to research individual companies, consider a solid small-cap fund like Babson Enterprise II or Berger Small Cap Value, or a Russell 2000 index fund, which gathers the small-cap castoffs in a neat bundle. Or buy a fund based on the Wilshire 5000 index, which includes both large- and small-cap stocks. Both types are sold by fund companies like Vanguard and Fidelity...
...True Thing, a patient, unforced adaptation of Anna Quindlen's novel by screenwriter Karen Croner and director Carl Franklin, contains lots of true things about that process. For it immerses us in the awful, vertiginous panic that attends a death in the family--the fierce-wistful attempts to maintain routines in the face of this most exigent of interruptions; the desire to speak certain truths before it's too late and the fear of what consequences such candor might have; the politesse with which you must cover the outrage you feel as the rest of the world glides on about...
...Harvard women's soccer team hopes to play the role of doctor tomorrow afternoon, and the patient will be the Crimson itself...
Third, health care. Our current managed care system is a disaster. We need to pass a Patient's Bill of Rights to ensure that medical decisions are made by doctors, not accountants. But simply reforming HMOs does not go far enough. We must take decisive steps to ensure that every American has health care coverage...