Word: treatments
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...understand why Egypt decided to pen us up. While their actions may seem extreme given that, at the time I was quarantined, infected Harvard students were attending graduation, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended staying at home and resting as the flu’s best treatment, Egypt is in an entirely different situation. Very few people have health coverage, most do not get ideal nutrition, and proper hygiene as we think of it is simply non-existent–our dorm didn’t have soap in the bathrooms until the quarantine. Avian flu caused...
...suffering from congestive heart failure, and your doctor had been given a limited budget from your insurance company to treat you? If he were to go over cost, he would pay out of his own pocket. If he spent less than the allotment - and you were satisfied with your treatment - he would keep some of the change...
...with the outcome). And the best way to keep costs low is to offer the best care: If the doctor is negligent in monitoring the patient's condition or fails to counsel the patient fully about proper diet and exercise, that patient could have a heart attack - requiring more treatments - and the doctor would take a financial hit. "The more defects you prevent, the more money you make," says Francois de Brantes, the health-payment-reform guru who coordinates Prometheus. "The fact that anybody has a leg amputated for diabetes" - something that's preventable with proper treatment - "is revolting...
...audience of physicians to get on board with bundled, per-episode care. "You entered this profession to be healers," he said. "Now, that starts with reforming the way we compensate our providers - doctors and hospitals. We need to bundle payments so you aren't paid for every single treatment you offer a patient with a chronic condition like diabetes, but instead paid well for how you treat the overall disease...
...factors probably played a role in the protests, said Gladney, in part because of frustration among the large numbers of young Uighur men who cannot find work, a situation they often blame on the large influx of Han from other parts of China, whom they believe are given preferential treatment by both private and government employers. Gladney said he also believes that the street protests in Tehran and other Iranian cities that followed the recent presidential election there may have influenced protesters in Urumqi...