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...race with Saw VI, four of whose elder siblings had easily won the pre-Halloween weekends on which they,d been released. But some steamrollers can't be stopped. Paranormal, playing on only 64% as many screens as Saw VI, made 67% more money. The $14.8 million estimated weekend total had to be a disappointment to Lionsgate, the series, sponsor. "If we end up with at least $20 million," David Spitz, the company's executive VP and general manager, told the industry blog The Wrap, "we'll be talking about Saw VII, this time next year." Oh, no - a fright...
Before throwing dirt on the Saw coffin, consider that the first film in the franchise, made for just $1.2 million back in 2004, earned $103.1 million worldwide; and that the total gross for the first five films is a whopping $669 million on a still stingy $35 million cumulative budget. That's the kind of return on investment that encourages a studio to keep grinding 'em out. Moreover, each of the last three entries made more than half its money in foreign markets, where Saw VI isn't going up against the no-budget specter of Paranormal. So gorenography aficionados...
...Geisinger uses a little of all three strategies. Founded in 1915 as a 70-bed hospital in a small, underserved rural community, the operation now spans a 43-county region, with a total of 67 sites - stretching from one-doctor offices and in-store clinics to a sprawling main campus in Danville, Pa. Like Kaiser, the 13,000-employee Geisinger is both a care provider and an insurer. About 30% of its 783,000 patients have the in-house coverage; the remaining 70% are covered by other private insurers or Medicare...
...spell out the specific drugs and dosages doctors would use. The result was an expanded 40-step list that some surgeons balked at initially, deriding what they called "cookbook medicine." Once doctors began following the expanded checklist, however, they grew to like it. After the first 200 operations - a total of 8,000 steps - there had been just four steps not followed precisely, for a 99.95% compliance rate. A total of 320 bypasses have now been performed under the new rules. "There are fewer complications. Patients are going home sooner. There's less post-op bleeding and less intubation...
...banks are at risk of failure, up from 117 a year ago. Soured commercial real estate loans alone may generate a fresh $600 billion in losses by 2013. Veteran bank analyst Gerard Cassidy of RBC Capital Markets expects as many as 1,000 lenders to go bust in total...