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...Doctors often interrupt patients. There have been several studies done that show that on average, doctors let patients talk for 20 seconds before interrupting. Some doctors interrupted after only three seconds. Once interrupted, patients are often reluctant to go back to their story. After you answer the doctor's question, say, "Let me just go back and tell you what happened." I also think patients need to be empowered to ask doctors to explain things in language they can understand. The patient is, after all, the owner-operator of his or her body. We wouldn't go to a mechanic...
...often does money come up with families or patients when you are talking about end-of-life care? This is a question that medical students often ask. Health-care finance and social issues regarding health-care expenditures nationally are policy issues, and they are never to be decided at the bedside...
...final contradiction may lie beneath all the others. Democrats, particularly those involved in health policy, were scarred by President Clinton's failure to achieve reform in 1994. They are determined to avoid a similar debacle. So on every procedural question, they have done the reverse of what he did. (See who's who in Barack Obama's White House...
...layoffs are "unnecessary" and unjustified, and that the University has the money to maintain services at the current level."We still don't understand why they are doing this," said Langley. "Endowments are supposed to be a rainy day fund, and it's a typhoon. So you have to question this whole panic that's going on...I think that's the crux of it: if people were convinced that [Harvard's budgetary crisis] is as serious as Harvard's saying, we might have a different posture on it. But we have no evidence to indicate otherwise...
...Representative Sheila Jackson • suggestion by that footage showing talking on cell phone by while being asked a question at a town-hall meeting may be "a doctored video...