Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Medical Middlemen. Even today, most U.S. hospitals follow the practice of extending staff privileges to private physicians, who may then admit their own patients or refer them to other private specialists on the staff. But the Bassett set out to be more than a medicine middleman for private practice. The hospital put its staff members on the payroll and became the primary provider of health care in Cooperstown. Now patients seeking attention can go directly to one of the hospital's seven specialty clinics or be referred from the general services department. Doctors treating patients in one department...
...client, have no way of checking on the legitimacy of these services, or the reputation of the clinics to which they refer you. They make all arrangements for you, not telling you even the name of the clinic until they have received payment...
...report is to discuss a number of questions relating to the real nature and function of the University-an understanding of which the Governance Committee must have if it is to proceed with any confidence in rearranging Harvard's actual decision-making process. Though the report does refer to questions which have plagued the University for several years now, it makes no attempt to propose specific changes...
...meet this artistic challenge, and indeed, to get here at all, Makarova has already demonstrated a disposition to risk everything that caused one American dancer to refer to her, partly in awe, partly in envy, as "a little Russian juggernaut...
Ultimate Cross. Gomulka's government has been moving-but slowly and ineffectively-to improve the economy. After lengthy discussions, the Central Committee approved a new Five-Year Plan for 1971-76 and a progressive approach that economists refer to as "the New Economic Strategy." It made sense in theory but, as Alexis de Tocqueville noted, the most dangerous time for a government is hot when conditions are bad but when the regime is trying to make them better. Demonstrating both arrogance and a lack of touch with popular feelings, the government neglected to explain adequately what it was doing...