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...maybe some money; there are fewer of them and HMO fees are so low that many won't take on new patients except as a favor. This is especially true for the good ones who really spend time and develop a relationship with their patients. Internists vary tremendously. Some treat everything, some just do check-ups and referrals. If competent, the former will save you a lot of anxiety, waiting-room time and money. They will treat the pneumonia or the backache themselves, instead of sending you to the pulmonary doc or orthopod...
...coming up with the drug cocktail that might save my life from a cancer. It's usually not that hard, though. The great bulk of patient visits are for really simple things - questions that a reasonably bright resident would get right. Most pneumonias, for example, are pretty easy to treat; the internist should have no trouble doing it himself. But sub-specialization is the trend.The reasons for this are tied up in ego, education and mostly economics...
...trend to specialize and now sub-specialize ("He only does knees") is playing havoc with emergency medicine, too. How can a neurosurgeon who "only does back surgery" be on call to treat head trauma in an emergency department? General surgeons, right now, are a dying breed; their residency programs have failed to fill for the past few years. As the specialists narrow down and lose competence in their "parent" fields, they will necessarily leave certain patients without needed, basic care. It's a serious problem that calls for a nationwide strategy...
...Hills Bowl by Karim Rashid for Gaia&Gino New York City-based Rashid, who is half Egyptian, half English and Canadian-raised, designed this topographical treat for Turkish brand Gaia&Gino. That's some lineage. Modeled on Istanbul's seven hills, if inverted, it serves as a fruit bowl or one heck of a Jell-O mold. But then again, perhaps the second option might be going too far? www.gaiaandgino.com...
...handsome surfaces. After the Wedding unfolds and enfolds like those old-fashioned novels on which those classic movies were so often based. It speaks the universal language of high romance in the distinctly unromantic Danish tongue. But don't be put off by that. It is a kind of treat we are only rarely offered these days...