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Aside from the immediate costs to doctors in the form of higher malpractice insurance rates, increasingly-expensive malpractice suits impede legitimate medicine by putting doctors on the defensive. Fearful of future scrutiny by juries unfamiliar with the complexities of medical decisions, doctors are pressured to prescribe unnecessary tests and procedures in order to demonstrate that they explored every possible option for care. The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) reports that current estimates place the cost of this so-called “defensive medicine” at up to $20 billion annually. In addition, NEJM has found that doctors?...
...what it represents. The new official line?that sovereignty issues are for the next generation to resolve?invites voters to flow to other parties at either end of the political spectrum. And efforts to make the KMT more bentuhua, although necessary to win elections, pits the KMT in an unfamiliar game. "Bentuhua lends itself to independence and extremism," says Jason Hu, one of the horsepower trio, "so we can't compete with the DPP on that subject." So what's left? Hu says the KMT must "hope voters are one day mature enough to support a more mature party...
...news of his possible downfall. When an aide informed Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat of the prosecutor's call to indict Sharon, Arafat smiled broadly and, according to people who were present, interrupted a meeting he was chairing. "Didn't I tell you," said Arafat, a man not unfamiliar with charges of corruption, "that he will be consigned to the trash can of history, where he will be ignored...
...athletes traveled down to Texas to compete in the Bayou Classic at Rice University to see how they matched up with unfamiliar competition...
...facing off for a third time—and with a shot at the NCAA Tournament at stake—it will be equally emotional, but one’s victory will be the other’s bitter defeat, placing these two in very unfamiliar territory...