Unlike in the U.S., say lawyers in France, it is not industry practice to drop a customer if he or she develops a serious health issue; health care in Europe is considered a "human right".
But even one negative court judgment can boost insurance premiums so high that a doctor is forced to stop practicing, or to drop the "ob" from his or her ob-gyn shingle.
As the number of students considering a career in family practice seems to drop especially within the first years in medical school [ 18], some authors emphasize the potential benefit of interventions early in medical education [ 14, 18].
Banda and the girls shared how harmful traditional practices created pressure to drop out of school and get pregnant.
Global Crossing Ltd., the fiber optic network operator that sought bankruptcy protection, said today that an employee who questioned its accounting practices demanded cash to drop a lawsuit over his dismissal in a round of layoffs.
Seattle also considered Wells Fargo's "deplorable" consumer practices in deciding to drop the bank, according to Juarez.
Craig Smith, medical director for infectious diseases at University Hospital in Augusta, Georgia, and a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America's Rapid Communications Work Group, says every medical student learns about fungal infections, but since such infections are rarely seen in most practices, they tend to drop out of the top tiers of possibilities considered for a patient.
The challenge is for the computing industry to drop practices that have been in use for decades and adapt to this new platform.
On a mental and emotional level, the practice allows the body to drop down into the parasympathetic nervous system, and therefore becomes deeply healing and nourishing.
Practice getting the Mentos to drop simultaneously a few times before wasting your bottle of soda.
