Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Master's candidates do a giant lap sit in Cambridge Common, and doctoral candidates travel to Thompson Island, an Outward Bound post, to do ropes courses and trust falls...
Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler is also scheduled to deliver a lecture called "Seamus Heaney's 'Mycenae Lookout': The Use of Tradition" in the Thompson Parlor of the Barker Center...
...Dick Thompson...
...Valerie Thompson has been unable to stop crying since she realized that managed care is tearing her away from her newborn daughter Morganne. The baby has jaundice and needs to stay under white fluorescent lights for another day. But Valerie's managed-care plan, like most, wants her out after two days, vastly complicating her plans to breast-feed her baby. Thompson went to the nurses' station and begged for one more day. The nurses told her she could call her insurer, but they didn't hold out much hope. "They said, 'No way. That's not going to happen...
...happen. Her doctor called Peter Jacobi, medical director of PrimaHealth, and Jacobi authorized an additional day. Thompson's saga sounds like one of those sepia-toned HMO commercials: dub in the triumphant music, fade out with mother embracing child. But this is no ad, nor is PrimaHealth an HMO. It's a rarer species in the managed-care jungle, called an independent-practice association. IPAs are groups of doctors who band together to act like HMOs. Some medical observers believe that if IPAs like PrimaHealth spread, they could make managed care a lot more patient-friendly...