Word: twins
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...them confused and, too often, simply abandoned. Funding care for people over time, instead of for specific medical events, reduces the burden of illness by focusing on high quality preventive care. We need "managed care" as it was originally intended to be - the good kind, not the evil, mutant twin that just tried to cut costs, restrict choice, and limit available care. Correctly conceived, "managed care" addresses the real needs of patients over time and place, guiding them through the technological thicket of modern medicine, and making sure that they get exactly what they want and need, exactly when...
...Eddy exaggerated the pain of minor injuries in order to get out of a job he didn't like. He probably didn't think he would really become disabled by being a good plaintiff. It's the evil twin of rehabilitation - act sick-get sick - and it happens a lot. "Accentuate the negative" may be sound legal counsel, but it's the worst possible medical advice anyone could ever give. It's a pain for the doctor, and often ultimately, an even bigger pain for the patient...
...himself survived cancer against the odds. Twice—in the mid-80’s with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, for which he received a bone marrow transplant, and in the 90’s for prostate cancer—Lucchino had experienced the twin hells of cancer and chemo...
...China's leaders are f?ted with increasing pomp and ceremony on trips as far afield as Germany, Africa, Australia and the U.S. Indeed, even Washington now looks to China to play a more pivotal role in global diplomacy, not least seeking Beijing's help in contending with the twin threats of nuclear-weapons programs in North Korea and Iran...
RELEASED. The autopsy results of James Zadroga, 34, New York City police detective who, after the 9/11 attacks, spent 470 hours sifting through the dusty ruins of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in search of victims' remains, and who died Jan. 6 of respiratory failure; showing that Zadroga had "innumerable foreign body granules" in his lungs and that his death was "directly related" to his post-9/11 efforts, the first known fatality attributed to such work...