"Once a jewel of biomedical research," McKinnell said, "Europe today is a patchwork of price controls, formulary restrictions, product diversions, intentional gaps in patient information and mandated intrusions into the relationships between patients and their doctors".
"Really what we're dealing with is a patchwork of mosquito control operations in the country of varying quality," Petersen, director of the CDC's division of vector-borne diseases, told Medscape News.
Because of these voters, a museum whose building and collection were created and sustained by a patchwork of money controlled by city and state officials — as well as donations from loyal patrons with names like Ford, Dodge, Scripps and Firestone — will be primarily and more directly supported by its public.
Syria has become a patchwork of areas controlled by the government, an array of rebel groups, Islamic State militants, and Kurdish militia.
Iguala is a key entry and exit point for the isolated mountainous region where large amounts of opium poppy is cultivated in a patchwork of territories controlled by various different criminal groups.
8 Germany Crash Opens Debate Some aviation experts, in the wake of a midair crash of two planes over southern Germany, are saying that Europe's patchwork of air traffic control systems is a safety threat.
Now, in the wake of the recent midair crash of a Russian passenger jet and a Boeing 757 cargo plane over southern Germany, some say Europe's patchwork of air traffic control systems is also a safety threat.
But political momentum for an overhaul has stalled even though Europe's patchwork of air traffic control fiefs is so notoriously inefficient that even on clear days airlines and travelers waste time and money on too few flights, too many delays and too many illogical, circuitous flight paths.
Road tripping in Syria reveals the sometimes surreal experience of Syrians' trying to move themselves and their goods around a country that has become a patchwork of rebellion and control, where government and rebel fighters share the roads with families and traders trying to go about their business.
But with a patchwork of militias now controlling Libya's ports, there are fewer curbs and no central authority for Europe to deal with.
