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...setting of care, the traditional office visit, was created to take care of acute medical problems a century ago," says Dr. Victor Villagra, president of the Disease Management Association of America and a national medical executive at Cigna, which already has more than 600,000 members enrolled in chronic-care programs and has seen a 14% cost savings for diabetic patients who are participants. "That is no longer sufficient," he says. What is, apparently, is having someone there to tell you to take your medicine, or else...
Fanne Foxe, Mrs. Annabella Battistella, the other woman in Wilbur Mills' life, was born in a village 175 miles southwest of Buenos Aires, where her Indian-Spanish father, Oswaldo Villagra, was a male nurse and local politician. She was a skinny tomboy who dressed in white overalls cut from her father's old medical uniforms. At 20, Annabella married Eduardo Battistella and eventually followed him around South America, where he played the piano in nightclubs. Finally, their savings depleted, she turned from dancing to striptease. In the early '60s, the couple settled in the U.S. Their parallel...
...never grew up, despite all the knowledge I managed to acquire. I left my country, I left my family when I needed it most. After my father died, something like a part of myself died with him. I look back and I see a girl. Her name was Bebe Villagra and I admire her and it's nice to watch her in my mind, the beautiful things she did, and how happy she was, and how much of a devil she was. But it's not there...
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