Classes focus on the way economics, business and government policy affect the practice of medicine, with lectures on treating the uninsured, dealing with Medicare, creating advocacy organizations and using scientific findings to lobby.
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The New Republic's Michael Crowley points out that new Bush administration policy coordinator Joel Kaplan is quite familiar with the practice of hardball politics: He was a participant in the "Brooks Brothers riot" during the 2000 Florida recount, when a group of mostly Republican House aides posed as citizen protestors and helped shut down a recount of Miami-Dade ballots.
To Dr. Peter Lurie, a physician who has helped plan many of these new courses, such policy-oriented work goes hand in hand with the practice of medicine.
Breaking with the practice of the two preceding administrations, he adopted a hands-off policy toward the Federal Reserve Board.
"This policy is in accordance with the practices of news organizations globally and is generally accepted as the professional norm".
Finally, we discuss the prospect of extending this framework to spatially explicit biogeochemical models (e.g., more effectively connect inshore with offshore areas) along with the benefits for environmental management, such as the optimization of the sampling design of monitoring programs and the alignment with the policy practice of adaptive management.
At some point, however, the practice of basing western policy on pragmatic deals with Mr Milosevic will reach its limits.
The range of devices lumped into this policy, coupled with the continued practice of searches "absent probable cause," makes me very uncomfortable (I wonder how the prospect of large numbers of iPods confiscated at the border will affect Apple's sales and stock prices).
One may dislike or find fault with the policies and practices of the Bush administration.
