It obtained some data showing how back surgeons who get big royalties from Medtronic and other companies just happen to be working at some of the same hospitals where doctors are performing controversial spinal fusion surgeries like crazy.

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At first, we see only what Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) sees: a blur of faces, which turn out to be the doctors and nurses at the hospital, who float into view in fearsome closeup, like deep-sea monsters.

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The net effect, he predicts, will be that, in future, doctors simply refuse to set up practice in areas like his simply because of the economics.

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But it was very much 'Sign up an author and wait two or three years for a manuscript, ' rather than saying, 'This is what we think doctors and nurses need, what the book should look like and what the content should be.

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President Bush is prudently proposing the imposition of caps on medical malpractice awards for pain and suffering. (Recovery of actual monetary losses, like medical expenses, would not be restricted.) Doctors in those states that have done this have not experienced the insurance catastrophes facing doctors in other parts of the country.

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