Rhetorical organizations of defense in primary care

Primary Care Clinics and Accountable Care Organizations

BACKGROUND The Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is one of the new models of health care delivery in the U.S. To date, little is known about the characteristics of health care organizations that have joined ACOs. We report on the findings of a survey of primary care clinics, the objective of which was to investigate the opinions of clinic management about participation in ACOs, and the charac...

In Defense of Direct Primary Care.

Direct primary care (DPC) is a growing movement across the United States involving at least 429 practices in 47 states. Family medicine physicians operating DPC practices share several characteristics: • They charge a periodic (monthly or annual) fee for a defined set of primary care services, • They do not bill any third parties on a fee-for-service basis for the services covered by the period...

a contrastive study of rhetorical functions of citation in iranian and international elt scopus journals

writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...

Non-governmental organizations and primary health care.

A defense of the neglected rhetorical strategy (NRS).

PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISM serves a valuable end when it helps to clarify the truth. But clarity requires precision. Precision is especially necessary when one presents the arguments of those holding the view that is the focus of one’s criticisms. Where there is lack of precision, ambiguity and confusion may arise, which may in turn obscure the truth. For this reason I was deeply disturbed by the ...