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...system is clearly broken, and there is no quick fix in sight. To doctors like Sosenko, the main problems are frivolous lawsuits and multimillion-dollar judgments awarded for tragic but sometimes unavoidable outcomes. (A banner at a rally read SICK? CALL A LAWYER) The waiting room at Sosenko's Midwest Pulmonary these days looks almost like a campaign headquarters. Banners declaring WE HAVE A CRISIS! hang alongside lists of politicians' names and phone numbers. Sosenko's patients have signed petitions calling on politicians to make malpractice reform a top priority...
...first road games I covered as a young freshman were the men’s basketball team’s annual jaunt to Penn and Princeton. Unfortunately, the writer who was to come along got sick, and so it was up to me to forge ahead alone. I couldn’t borrow a car, so I went to the only place that rented to those under 21: Allston’s venerable “EZ Auto”. At the Crimson, we expense-account everything, so I had no qualms (even though I had been told...
...become a copy editor on the op-ed page in 1979. He took his vacation time in Florida, so he could file stories on the winter racing season there, and covered a race in Saratoga when the lead writer got sick...
Gahan could only marvel at their longevity. “The drama really sustained itself for almost the entire time. I thought everyone would get sick of each other after this cross-fertilization of the floor.” Not only did the third floor not get sick of each other, many of them blocked together, or ended up in the same house. With all this proximity, it’s only natural to ask, have there been any periods of awkwardness...
...potential health costs of the plant—4 people might die of lung cancer over 40 years, they concluded—the SJC ruled to let the plant operate, and the diesels were fired up, despite residents’ claims that Harvard was as “sick...[as] Nazi Germany...