Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often perform a lot more tests and treatments than a patient really needs.
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Both bills would reduce the rate of growth in annual Medicare payments to hospitals, nursing homes and other providers by amounts comparable to the productivity savings routinely made in other industries with the help of new technologies and new ways to organize work.
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Overall, stress-related health problems account for up to 90% of hospital visits, many of them preventable.
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Martin Samuels at a Boston hospital.
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Migrants to cities are attracted by plentiful jobs, access to hospitals and education, and the ability to escape the boredom of a farmer's agricultural life.
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Surgeons may survive the robot invasion, but others at the hospital might not be so lucky, as iRobot, maker of the Roomba, a robot vacuum cleaner, has been showing off Ava, which could be used as a messenger in a hospital.
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Gary, my assistant is in hospital now.
出自-2013年6月听力原文
Hospital workers in at least one case deserted their workplace in panic, thus halting the administering of potentially unclean disease spreading injections, but Ebola has not disappeared
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The woman will have to stay in hospital for a few days.
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Both strains quickly invaded local hospitals when needle sharing and other unhealthy practices ensured the rapid spreading of the infection by bringing people into contact with contaminated body fluids.
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Many hospitals and centers help patients cope
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Paul Phillips, an expert from the High Field Hospital.
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I can't seem to get anyone in the hospital to listen to my complaints and this outdated equipment is dangerous.
出自-2012年12月听力原文
The head technician in the lab tried to persuade the hospital administration to replace it, but they are trying to cut costs
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Poor management of the hospital.
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This responsibility takes her to many different places every week——the police station, the court and the hospital.
出自-2011年6月听力原文
A lot of the government advertising has been about individual responsibility, but actually understanding that drinking is very much about the social activity and finding ways to help young people get home safely and not end up in hospital is one of the th
2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
During a month-long hospital trial,researchers asked 70 patients how they felt being around the robot and \only three or four said they didn't like having it around\.
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In 2014, one in sixteen Americans visited the hospital emergency room for home injuries.
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Kristi King, a diet specialist at Texas Children's Hospital, finds it's hard to get teenager patients' attention about healthy eating.
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Last year, a child was born at a hospital in the UK with her heart outside her body.
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Overall, stress-related health problems account for up to 90% of hospital visits, many of them preventable .
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Toyohashi University of Technology has developed Terapio, a robotic medical cart that can make hospital rounds, deliver medications and other items, and retrieve records.
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