Word: refering
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...Second Opinions Don't Always Add Up Too many physicians are quick to refer patients to yet another doctor instead of doing the heavy lifting themselves. That's not only inefficient ? it's bad medicine
...called "patient driven medicine." Patient driven essentially means it doesn't matter what we do or say to patients as long as they feel satisfied by their interaction with us. When the problem is complex and the best treatment mediocre, it's far more profitable to smile, cajole and refer on to the next doc. The next doc might actually do the heavy lifting of explaining and living with a difficult patient or, as was done times six in Anna's case, he too might keep it light and pleasant, do his thing and say goodbye...
...full-length book on globalization to fill in the gaps of analysis left in the interstitial spaces between his previous columns. Then he did it all over again.News stories do, however, differ from columns. Here the problem is not poor and hasty analysis (although Bush, in fact, does refer to the media as a “filter” of the news). Instead the type of news found in newspapers, on the radio, and on television can act as a distraction to more important issues. The immense focus on the short-term particulars so rampant in many articles...
...gave a talk on the future of the U.S. Supreme Court under Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. ’76. But the new holiday seems not to have reached the popular recognition of other civic holidays. “My calendar, for example, does not refer to it,’ said Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law Richard Fallon. “But I suppose it will have at least some effect in increasing awareness of constitutional history.” Harvard Republican Club member Zachary V. Smith ’09 said such yearly speeches...
Does the title of Government 1060, “The History of Ancient and Medieval Political Philosophy” refer to the course's placement in the FAS catalogue (just before Government 1061, “The History of Modern Political Philosophy”) or to instructor Harvey C-Minus Mansfield's birth-year...