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...From where we sit (and doctors think they're the ones who are in the best position to know what malpractice means and when it happens), there is little or no correlation between doing bad stuff and getting sued. We also observe that none of the countries whose medical systems are held up to us as better than ours has any malpractice system at all. And the cost of defensive medicine is enormous - much higher than published estimates...
...There are problems: the byzantine system of Continuing Medical Education, medical advertising, the HMOs themselves and our top-heavy system of hospital administration, to name a few. More on these during growing season...
...basement of 86 Brattle Street, where Anderson leads a team of students and staff who organize the piles of paper.The incoming documents—including the applications, secondary school reports, and teacher recommendations—then get scanned, a process that began this year as an electronic back-up system. “It’s really a security device to make sure we have an electronic record of the applications in case the building burns down,” said Director of Admissions Marilyn McGrath-Lewis ’70-’73.Every morning Anderson prints applications...
...mailing list system that offers faster mail service and an improved interface is debuting this week as the Harvard Computer Society migrates lists from the old system onto the new one. The new mailing list system, part of a broader package of new services called “HCS-NextGen,” eliminates delays in receiving mail sent over the 4,595 mailing lists hosted by HCS, according to Joshua A. Kroll ’09, a former HCS president. Funded by Faculty of Arts and Sciences Information Technology and the Undergraduate Council, “HCS-NextGen?...
...Trying to meet that ambitious goal in such a short time frame may make it hard for lawmakers to make the wisest policy choices. Though advocates say that fixing the health system promises big savings over the long haul, it will take some big, up-front investments - in technology and preventive care, for instance - whose benefits will not begin to take effect for years. And most of the savings will accrue not to the Federal Government - whose direct costs for health care are felt largely through the Medicare and Medicaid programs - but to the economy writ large, where health care...