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...trend toward for-profit health care may result in the premature release of patients from the hospital as doctors attempt to cut costs, according to Mitchell T. Rabkin '51, the chief executive officer of the Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Hospital...
...Robinson is an expert in hematology, and he's a good guy." said Beth Israel Director Mitchell T. Rabkin '51, a professor of medicine...
...Robert Rabkin, a surgeon from Sausalito, Calif., considered himself a pretty savvy consumer-until he decided to buy a personal computer. Nothing he had learned while buying cars or stereo rigs prepared him for the trauma of shopping for a microcomputer. Not only was the equipment expensive ($2,500 and up for a complete system) and dauntingly complex, but the manufacturers seemed to be in a state of constant turmoil. "I didn't know what I was getting into," says Rabkin. "I was afraid anything I might buy would be obsolete within six months." For now, the doctor...
Customers like Rabkin represent the personal computer industry's greatest challenge. The original buyers were often hobbyists or technically inclined businessmen, but today they are outnumbered by a new breed of consumer: the computer naive. These first-time customers are more cautious, less technically sophisticated and less convinced that computers will change their lives. By and large, they are right. "For the new consumer, the stuffs been oversold," says Esther Dyson, editor of RELease 1.0, an industry newsletter. "The technology is still too hard...
Most importantly, will the University do something before exams start and the real suffering begins? David G. Rabkin '83 Daniel H. Reich...