If this happens, it will be a good thing about the information highway: electronic communication won't reduce face-to-face communication; instead, it will focus it.
Val J. Halamandaris, president of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice, said that rising fuel prices had become a significant burden for the 7,000 agencies represented by his group, with some forced to close and others compelled to shrink their service areas or reduce face-to-face visits with patients.
Many are also reluctant to reduce face-to-face transactions because, even though discrimination is illegal, they think an agent can size up people -- how they dress, how they walk and talk -- and therefore judge how risky they would be to insure.
These interviews suggest that an increasing frequency of heat waves over time may reduce activity levels, alter dietary patterns, make sleeping more difficult, and reduce face-to-face connectivity, thus possibly impacting on both physical and mental health.
For example, pharmacists using eP may believe that ready access to a wide variety of computerised results improves their ability to trap prescribing errors, but it may also reduce face-to-face contact with staff and patients because they no longer need to visit the wards to get the clinical information they need for effective prescription review.
Bondholders who participate in the exchange would receive a higher interest rate and stronger security in exchange for reduced face value on the debt.
In the cranium a high, rounded, and quite thin-boned braincase overhangs a greatly reduced face that is not expanded by large air sinuses.
The industry-sponsored coalition recently told Medicare recipients that if the cuts occurred, "millions of seniors could see their benefits reduced, face higher out-of-pocket costs or lose their Medicare Advantage coverage entirely".
