Treatment Rhetoric versus Waiver Decisions

Memory in neuroscience: rhetoric versus reality.

The central point of this article is that the concept of memory as information storage in the brain is inadequate for and irrelevant to understanding the nervous system. Beginning from the sensorimotor hypothesis that underlies neuroscience--that the entire function of the nervous system is to connect experience to appropriate behavior--the paper defines memories as sequences of events that con...

Two-child policy in China: Rhetoric versus reality.

State Power in a Globalised Economy: Rhetoric versus Reality

This paper examines the connotations that globalisation has for state and market actors, and the impact it has on policy choices. It evaluates the ongoing evolution of statehood and sovereignty with particular reference to the redefinition of the role of the state under conditions of contemporary globalisation. It looks at the impact that the process of globalisation has on various actors. Draw...

Undifferentiated arthritis: predictive factors of persistent arthritis and treatment decisions

A number of patients with inflammatory arthritis due to inadequate clinical or laboratory data do not fulfill diagnostic criteria for a clinical disease categories. These patients with initial diagnosis of undifferentiated arthritis (UA) may remit or progress to a definite well- defined condition such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or remain as UA with persistence of inflammatory arthritis. The m...

The Waiver of Liability Provision

As part of its 1983 budget-cutting proposals, the admin. istration sought, but did not obtain, legislation to modify Medicare's waiver of liability provision with respect to payments to hospitals, health agencies-;1 skilled nursing facilities, and home According to the President's proposals, this change would have resulted in a net savings of $10 million in fiscal year 1983. We believe that suc...