Thanks to the drug companies that have made billions of dollars off us, and to the medical community that has gained a captive audience to fill appointment books, and to AIDS charities that have become a career for many, we have created an industry of disease that would crumble if AIDS was cured in our community.
The Roosevelt Institute, a New York thinktank, spent countless hours identifying progressive and diverse candidates to fill key appointments in a Clinton administration.
"It's taken time to fill the appointments, and we haven't had enough commission members to have what we thought would be a meaningful meeting," he said.
Several screeners said that one motivated member of staff could make a real difference, for example, by contacting patients to fill vacant appointments.
Bring your planner to the interview (that should be filled with "appointments") to make sure your interviewer doesn't think your dance card isn't filled.
The first six or seven pages were filled with appointments for cocktails, dates for parties, and girl's names.
A tin the children ate their meals from, toys stuffed with rags and sand, a book whose margins are filled with appointments pencilled by my grandmother, who was hairdresser for the women and children.
Another life-changing moment for the Murphys came in 2006, when Jaclyn had a 10-hour hospital day at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan filled with appointments, treatments and blood work.
Concern over the lack of transparent competition in filling some appointments led the Canadian delegation to draw attention, in a letter to Mr Gurría dated April 4th, to the fact that "the OECD secretariat and its senior management must embody, and be seen to embody, the very highest standards of good governance.
From our monthly calendar filled with appointments and activities, to our weekly menu options, I like to have a plan.
This world is filled with appointments, oncologists, radiologists, lab technicians, pharmacists, nurses, nurse practitioners, and insurance companies.
