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...have to be patient," says Paul Bremer, the de facto American Governor of Iraq, sitting in his small office in the cavernous Republican Palace in Baghdad. "None of us has any experience in this," he says, referring to the reconstruction task ahead of him. "Those who do are over 90. We have not done it since Germany...
...street for some time. "Pardon me, speaking frankly," said a leading Shi'ite cleric to Garner last week. "Do not abandon your work too soon. If you say you will stay here for two years, I say stay for four." Like the man said, you have to be patient. --Reported by Malcolm MacPherson/Arbil, Paul Quinn-Judge, Romesh Ratnesar and Nir Rosen/Baghdad and Mark Thompson/Washington
...years, Sosenko and his colleagues at MPC have earned a reputation as not only capable but also unusually attentive. Phone calls are promptly returned, day or night, and doctors make house calls when necessary. "It's such a relief, just knowing he's here," says Pat Falkenberg, 48, a patient of Sosenko's who is battling pulmonary fibrosis and awaiting a lung transplant. During a stay in the hospital, Falkenberg says, Sosenko stopped by her room so many times that she "often wondered if he ever went home...
...performed this unnecessary operation has left the state and is continuing with his life elsewhere," McDonough testified. That neurosurgeon, Richard Branan, 59, declined to comment about McDonough. Branan practices in Los Angeles and faces two other trials this year in Colorado. His attorney in one case, in which the patient died, says, "We have a very defensible case." His attorney in the other trial, also a spinal-surgery case, says Branan "did not cause any injuries to the patient...
Late last year Senator Feinstein began meeting with California doctors in an effort to come up with a national version of her state's malpractice law. California allows unlimited amounts to be awarded for the economic damages a patient suffers as a result of a doctor's error, such as lost wages and medical bills, but caps noneconomic awards for pain and suffering at $250,000. The cap works, Feinstein believes. Nationwide, doctors' insurance premiums grew 420% from 1975 to 2001, while California's premiums, she says, are up only 168%. (Some experts credit the lower premiums to insurance reforms...