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The curiosities in a statement like this are considerable. Perhaps most obvious is its emphasis on rugged self-reliance, individualism and competition. But there is surely also a comical edge here ...

epub |eng | 2009-05-05 | Author:Ruth Bolletino

Gathering Information About the Diagnosis Whether cancer is discovered during a routine physical examination or when the patient has consulted the primary physician or an internist after experiencing symptoms, it ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Iweala, Uzodinma [Iweala, Uzodinma]

DEATH On one of my trips to Nigeria, Doc and Samaila introduced me to a man named Ikenna, who ran a bar on the same military base where I happened ...

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The Depression, Welfare Medicine, and the Doctors Increased state and federal financing of medical services for the poor originated inadvertently and inconspicuously during the Depression. It was a hidden consequence ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:George Vigarello

The Archaic and the Modern Every diet recommended in the early nineteenth century does not rely on the new chemistry. Earlier beliefs and habits persist to varying degrees and with ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-06 | Author:Toby Cosgrove

Looking Ahead A willingness to innovate will determine the clinical, social, and economic future of medicine in this country. The challenge is to create an institutional architecture that supports innovation; ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-29 | Author:Sally Magnusson [Magnusson, Sally]

* You have been doing a series of psychiatric tests at a place they call the Memory Clinic, by which of course they mean the opposite. When I bring you ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Schulman

CHAPTER FIVE The Gentrification of Gay Politics Election Day, November 2008. It's a new dawn for America. Barack Obama has triumphed at the polls and every constituency of people without ...

epub |eng | | Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

In 1908, when psychiatrists encountered children who were withdrawn, self-absorbed, emotionally uncommunicative, and often prone to repetitive behaviors, they classified the disease as a strange variant of schizophrenia. But the ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Klitzman, Robert L.

Whether it is part of my identity now depends on the crowd I’m in. When I’m in an Alpha group: I’m one of you. It’s part of me, a description ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-02 | Author:Alexandra Butler [Butler, Alexandra]

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tom Farley [Farley, Tom]

13 “Would you like us to say, ‘That’s not our responsibility’?” In April 2010 we were finally ready to announce the names of companies that had promised to cut the ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Eric Manheimer [Manheimer, Eric]

That was the last time I saw her before Irene’s death. I still could not believe it. Marta’s aged mother had gone home, against all odds. And now the joy ...

epub |eng | | Author:Altman, Stuart.

The Birth of DRGs The HEW team had three goals in designing the new Medicare hospital payment system. It wanted to end cost-based payments, create an annual budget for hospital ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-25 | Author:Fer, Thomas M. De & Sateia, Heather F.

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