For most, making plans for how to provide healthcare after a disaster strikes is something of an esoteric exercise. But Dr. Lee Hamm of New Orleans has been there and done it, and he offers a mixed review of the latest Institute of Medicine report on the subject.
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If the number of times your presentation gets mentioned by other speakers is a measure of achievement, John Hasse's talk "Leadership Lessons from the Jazz Masters" at the American Medical Group Association's conference was a rousing success—just as his piano interludes successfully stirred attendees from their Saturday-morning drowsiness.
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The term "palliative care" may soon become as well-known as "Chinese gooseberry" and "slimehead."
Chinese gooseberry is what kiwifruit was once known as, back in the days when it wasn't very popular. According to the Purdue University Center for New Crops and Plant Products, New Zealand growers started calling it kiwifruit around 1962, but the name wasn't commercially adopted until 1974. And now, kiwifruit is an essential element of fruit salads everywhere. (Curiously, the Chinese name for the fruit literally translates to "strawberry peach," which sounds like a popular flavor of cheap wine or the latest blend of expensive vodka for the dangerously trendy. … But I digress.)
It is possible to be too popular. The fish originally called slimehead has seen a hazardous spike in popularity now that people know it as orange roughy. In fact, some fear it has become so in demand that it may be overfished out of existence. The same is true of the Patagonian toothfish, now known as the Chilean sea bass.
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When journalists get nasty letters, we tell ourselves that readers are more likely to offer feedback when they have something negative rather than positive to say. With online ratings of doctors, however, it may be the opposite.
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