The_Invention_of_Surgery
The most strident opposition to nationalized healthcare for the elderly had arisen from the AMA, calling Truman’s initial propos ...
maiden program doesn’t succeed, since proponents can argue that the limitation itself had hamstrung their pet project. The Kerr- ...
decades, having won seven out of the last nine presidential elections, while averaging “a whopping 424 Electoral College votes c ...
Mills turned to Johnson’s representative, Wilbur Cohen, and asked why they “could not put together a plan that included the Admi ...
the Civil Rights Act and the civil rights movement that shadowed its implementation, was a gift of that movement.”^25 Within a d ...
structures and medical equipment ... and a pro rata share for whatever its operating costs might be.”^31 With guaranteed reimbur ...
medical vignettes.^35 This led to the “resource-based relative value scale” (RBRVS), paving the way for 1989 legislation that fo ...
spending as a percentage of GDP must be kept at or below a given percentage—regardless of the funds needed ... This is the idea ...
THIRTEEN Device Clearance I am still acclimating to the Greenwich Mean Time zone, having arrived in London only two days ago. Af ...
doorway and posed for a picture with Charnley or the other surgeons who have helped make this place so famous. Going through the ...
new polymer, Craven developed a multi-station wear testing device ... and there it sits on the countertop in front of me. Pure w ...
doctrine of low wages, low taxes, and few social services. But in 1882, Roosevelt had a revelation, instigated by union activist ...
fancy, however—though they spanned just a few pages—told a more particular story about the meat that Americans were consuming. S ...
imported, American businessmen filled English bottles with almost anything that seemed a suitable imitation ... it was all a pac ...
“cure-alls” possibly be trusted? The pendulum was swinging, and companies, to survive, would need research departments, scientis ...
loss of money. With the discovery of X-rays by Röntgen in 1895 and radioactivity by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, it did not t ...
flimsy tail. The “tail” portion of the device was a porous thread, later determined to be the cause of infections. Inserted into ...
malfunction or calamity, the FDA is criticized for lax standards or haphazard clearance. Among the worst FDA failures ever was t ...
The breakthrough idea, as often happens in medicine, was a revisitation of an old concept. The first successful hip arthritis op ...
orthopedic giant. Like most orthopedic companies, DePuy determined that designing a MoM hip was imperative. While the FDA did no ...
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