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...tools the Medical School has available to it, the curriculum and financial awards (Harvard has no control over the policies of affiliated hospitals) would be insufficient even if the school used them to achieve social goals, according to Rashi Fein, professor of economics in the Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy...
...Rashi Fein, professor of economics of medicine, said yesterday he favors federal measures encouraging reduced enrollment, but added they could hurt minority and women applicants' chances of admission. "The ones who will be left out are the groups who have just begun being admitted," he said...
More fundamentally still, the system of third-party payments may be the root of much medical inflation, but the old-fashioned alternative is a kind of rationing of medical care by ability to pay that the nation now would rightly find abhorrent. Says Rashi Fein, a noted Harvard medical economist: "Medicine is a social product like education. To ration health in terms of price is not the hallmark of a civilized society. You can differentiate between rich and poor with Cadillacs and yachts, but not with medicine...
...determined to spread the new (and expensive) gospel. As Baltimore Lawyer and TM Teacher David Sykes, 28, explains it, levitation comes in three stages-hopping, or lifting off the ground a foot or two; then floating or hovering; and last, "actual mastery of the sky, flying at will." Adds Rashi Glazer, 27, a New Yorker who has started the new course but is not yet airborne: "Once you have experienced the absolute-even for a few minutes-flying is not a very big deal. I guess I will eventually walk through a wall, but the technique I want most...
...Rashi Fein, professor of the Economics of Medicine, yesterday said it is a common practice for members of the academic community to offer advice to presidential contenders, in the hope that the candidates will publicize issues which the experts consider important...