Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Parts 1-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 |
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... practice , that somewhere if they participated in this program they were required to go out and see these people . Mr. DAVID . No , sir . Dr. SILVER . This is a general problem in medical practice in the United States today . There was ...
... practice , that somewhere if they participated in this program they were required to go out and see these people . Mr. DAVID . No , sir . Dr. SILVER . This is a general problem in medical practice in the United States today . There was ...
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... practice and pediatrics than it is in some of the specialties . We have to do many things to overcome the shortage and I would not consider simply producing more physicians as the essential an- swer . What we need to do is use the ...
... practice and pediatrics than it is in some of the specialties . We have to do many things to overcome the shortage and I would not consider simply producing more physicians as the essential an- swer . What we need to do is use the ...
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... PRACTICE When I went into private practice , my attitude changed . Every time I ordered a laboratory test or an X - ray , I knew that the patient was going to have to pay for it , if not personally at least through his insurance ...
... PRACTICE When I went into private practice , my attitude changed . Every time I ordered a laboratory test or an X - ray , I knew that the patient was going to have to pay for it , if not personally at least through his insurance ...
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... practice , where if a man has no insurance he gets out of there a little bit more quickly . WHAT IS OPTIMUM CARE Now , again , what is optimum care ? Here it is pretty difficult to define . If you give him 2 extra days , is this bad ...
... practice , where if a man has no insurance he gets out of there a little bit more quickly . WHAT IS OPTIMUM CARE Now , again , what is optimum care ? Here it is pretty difficult to define . If you give him 2 extra days , is this bad ...
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... practice will not be forthcoming as long as the medical profession follows reasonable policies in setting fees , then perhaps doctors will police and regulate themselves effectively . Exactly how this can be accom- plished , I don't ...
... practice will not be forthcoming as long as the medical profession follows reasonable policies in setting fees , then perhaps doctors will police and regulate themselves effectively . Exactly how this can be accom- plished , I don't ...
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Page 614 - For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Page 457 - In a joint effort, the Office of Economic Opportunity and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
Page 209 - Smith observed that the division of labor is limited by the extent of the market.
Page 189 - ... by less than the standard error. The chances are about 95 out of 100 that the difference would be less than twice the standard error. The...
Page 188 - The standard error is primarily a measure of sampling variability, that is, of the variations that occur by chance because a sample rather than the whole of the population is surveyed. As calculated for this report, the standard error also partially measures the effect of response and enumeration errors, but it does not measure as such, any systematic biases in the data.
Page 188 - Reliability of the Estimates. Since the estimates are based on a sample, they may differ somewhat from the figures that would have been obtained if a complete census had been taken using the same schedules, instructions and enumerators.
Page 197 - ... 12-18% in blood grouping and typing; by 20-30% in hemoglobin measurements; by 40-80% in differential characterization of blood cells; and by 2030% in measurement of serum electrolytes. There also exists considerable variation In results from laboratory to laboratory. This information imlicutes that erroneous results are obtained in more than 25% of all tests analyzed by these studies.
Page 370 - American patent system and the need for legislative reform to eliminate the opportunity for misusing patents, stated: "* * * but we must be careful not to throw out the baby with the bath water.
Page 332 - Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in cooperation with the Department of Defense and the Veterans...
Page 189 - The memory factor in data derived from field surveys of income probably produces underestimates, because the tendency is to forget minor or irregular sources of income. Other errors of reporting are due to misrepresentation or to misunderstanding as to the scope of the income concept.