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...What she means is that there is no standard career path for the HDS student, even those in the supposedly pre-professional MDiv program. Some will eventually choose ordination, but others might feel a call to minister outside of the ecclesiastical sector. THE OTHER MINISTRYMatthew E. Nelson grew up in the Catholic Church but, disenchanted, jumped ship after his confirmation. He became an evangelical Christian and went to college at Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio, a school affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. In college, he discovered that he was gay, and he kept it a secret for fear...
...Administration Committee, said congressmen are asked to pay a "recommended annual fee" if they want to see doctors in the Capitol office. He would not reveal the amount, but in 1992 it was reported to be about $275. Brandt says the Attending Physician's referrals are sometimes to private sector doctors and sometimes to military doctors. A Navy spokesman provided a section of the federal law that indicates members of Congress do not have to pay for outpatient services from the government doctors to whom they're sent in the Washington area, but do have to reimburse some amount...
...alum, spoke about Ashoka, an organization he founded in 1980. Ashoka—a social entrepreneurship group—is Drayton’s answer to close “the social and economic gaps between the northern and southern hemispheres, while accelerating the democratic revolution through the citizen sector in developing countries,” according to Ashoka’s website. Drayton was introduced at the Forum by Gowher Rizvi, the director of the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation and a lecturer at the Kennedy School. “When you think about anyone who brought...
...included an out-of-the-box proposal that would allow private clinics to offer certain services currently available only under Medicare and--gadzooks!--charge the patients directly for them. Another Canadian-taboo breaker is a proposal to allow Alberta doctors to work simultaneously in and outside the public-health sector; now doctors must choose one or the other. Antonia Maioni, director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, calls the plan a significant departure from the status quo. "It's not turning the system upside down yet," she says, but "there is something going on, and that something...
...WHAT IS ALBERTA'S SOLUTION? Health and Wellness says it is adding facilities and staff to its system but can't continue to do so at the current rate indefinitely. That's why it wants the private sector to start taking up the slack, though only in three areas: knee and hip replacement and certain kinds of eye surgeries, such as cataract operations. The idea is that that would bring additional funding into the system and more fully employ medical staff. To work in the private sector, medical practitioners will have to submit a "business plan" to the health ministry...