Word: walliser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Department of Health and Human Services has reservations about the proposal to create ethical review committees. "The problem is there wouldn't be any enforcement," says John Svahn, who was recently promoted from HHS Under Secretary to Assistant to the President for Policy Development. The department hopes to...
So, in the spirit of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em," hospitals are opening up their own outpatient surgical centers, some within their existing facilities and some outside. Humana Inc., a hospital chain based in Louisville, reports that 76 of its more than 90 hospitals...
"Everyone talks about guilt feelings when they have to institutionalize a person they love," says Frank Holmes, the retired Boston businessman whose wife is in a nursing home. "It's not guilt I feel, it's heartbreak." -By Claudia Wallis. Reported by J. Madeleine Nash/Chicago and Sue Wymelenberg/Boston
"Naturally, I was trying to practice what was being preached in this story," she says, "but a critical number of high-stress life events were coming together while I was writing it: I was planning my wedding in June and looking for a co-op apartment." So, in addition to...
As the relaxation boom spreads, as corporate America learns its mantras and chronic worriers unwind their minds, the point, then, is not to escape the effects of stress, which are inescapable in any case, but to channel and control them. Between the fight-or-flight spasms of too much tension...