the long and winding road

The Long and Winding Road

Day by day the competition get tougher, the exams harder and the textbooks larger. Indeed, it is a long and winding road for the high school graduate seeking university admission to study medicine. The graduate desiring to excel must prepare to travel a tortuous path laden with obstacles. In Iran, in order to obtain admission to medical school, one must place approximately among 3622 of the 442...

The long and winding road.

Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology Service, Clinica y Maternidad Suizo Argentina and De Los Arcos Sanatorio, Buenos Aires, Argentina Heart Rhythm Service, Kingston General Hospital, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Cardiology Service, Hospital Cosme Argerich, Buenos Aires, Argentina Valley Health System and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA Department of Cardiology, Fi...

the long and winding road (part 2)

A Long and Winding Road

Gita Sen ([email protected]) is at the Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and was a member of the Planning Commission-constituted High Level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage. India’s steps towards universal health coverage began in the early years after Independence but they faltered because of various factors, including resource constraints. The conte...

A long and winding road

Introduction In August 2003, the plant endomembrane community gathered under the auspices of the Society for Experimental Biology to consider the latest developments in the rapidly growing field of the plant secretory pathway. The meeting was preceded by the two-day annual gathering of the European Plant Secretory Pathway Group, during which postgraduates and postdocs presented their latest dat...

Kaiser's long and winding road.

But Kaiser Permanente is entering the home stretch in what's turned out to be a sevenyear drive to implement comprehensive EHRs, personal health records and related systems at all of its hospitals and clinics. The experiences of the Oakland-Calif.-based not-for-profit organization, which owns 431 medical offices and 35 hospitals plus a large health plan, provide valuable insights for others tha...