Word: supermodern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elsewhere, young doctors learn their art and researchers develop the equipment and techniques that will save lives tomorrow. But all this comes at a fearfully high price-so high that many buyers in today's medical marketplace cannot or will not pay it. As a result, for all their supermodern machinery and fine medical pedigrees, the teaching hospitals are increasingly looking like institutional dinosaurs, exquisitely adapted to yesterday's hang-the-cost medicine practiced primarily by specialists but in need of, well, surgery to survive in tomorrow's world of intensely price-conscious managed care conducted mostly by primary-care...