Rising malpractice awards, strikes by surgeons in several states and the issue of malpractice insurance are some of the reasons why American doctors don’t want to be surgeons, says Steven G. Friedman.
According to the U.S. National Resident Matching Programme:
The number of American medical students applying to general surgery residency
Earnings inequality has increased significantly over the past three decades, due in large part to increased demand for workers with more knowledge and skill. The rise in inequality has raised concerns about economic mobility and whether those with low incomes have much, or any, hope of climbing the economic
On the eve of the 100th anniversary of Max Weber’s essay, “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,” we are witnessing the decline and fall of the Protestant work ethic in Europe. This represents the stunning triumph of secularisation in Western Europe, and the simultaneous decline of both
The leaders of a number of small public companies have decided to take their enterprises private. They are fed up with the host of new financial regulations put in place earlier this year designed to trip up corporate wrongdoers. They are also tired of angry and often misinformed
Although windmills provide a clean alternative to coal and gas, they have also generated huge turbulence within the environmental movement. Proponents of wind farms view those who oppose them as heretics, obstructing the promise of clean renewable energy, while opponents decry them as producing insufficient power to warrant their
