The main reason for this perception is that it is easier to train a cadre of health workers who belong to the same 'family' of professional practice, for example physician-clinicians. Meaning that, it is easier to delegate task from higher level physician-clinicians to lower level physician-clinician than to delegate the same tasks to non-physician clinicians.
Maryland, with 37 delegates, votes the same day, as does the District of Columbia, with 19 delegates, although Mr. Santorum is not on that ballot there.
The weight of each delegate's vote will be determined by how many other delegates from the same county show up on Saturday for the secret balloting in the Richmond Coliseum.
If 5-10 delegates from the same company wish to attend the conference, they can get 20% discount and 11-14 delegates from the same company can get 30% discount on registration fees.
But nearly 6 in 10 delegates, about the same as voters generally, say religion plays a very important role in their daily lives.
Had Republicans awarded delegates under the same rules, John McCain would have emerged from Super Tuesday only slightly ahead of the field, rather than with the prohibitive advantage he did possess.
Later, Pope Paul received each of the observer delegates in the same room of the adjoining Benedictine monastery in which Pope John in 1959 first announced his idea of the Council to a group of cardinals, who greeted the news in total silence.
Turness is keen to have all the delegates in the same room for the first time and there are also rumours of bacon sandwiches and bloody marys being available, as an incentive of sorts, if the conference hall owners will allow it.
Under the proposal, candidates for the city's top post will require more than 50% of the votes from a Nominating Committee made up of delegates from the same constituencies that selected the last chief executive.
