And like Buffett, Watsa is known for being a patient investor who often holds his best positions for 5-10 years or even longer.
He said there was a case for being clearer that when a patient refused to take advantage of this kind of treatment then the "bargain may have to be recast".
That would convert the Medicaid patient from being a low paying, high utilizing patient to a valued customer who can pay cash for care at a reasonable price.
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As a buyer Thompson has earned a reputation for being a tough and patient bargainer.
So how can you avoid being labeled a difficult patient, possibly by a doctor who's just impatient and stressed out?
But being a heart transplant patient comes with the extra challenge of getting the organ to beat at an acceptable rate.
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The British Medical Association favours a system of no fault compensation under which damages can be paid to a patient without a doctor being blamed.
Being patient with a difficult person is a challenge no matter who it is.
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The fun part about being patient in a slump is that it gets your brain churning in new ways.
The findings, reported Sunday by researchers, mark only the second documented case of a patient being cured of infection with the human immune-deficiency virus.
The study will assess if "sham feeding" can stop nausea after surgery which can be caused by a patient being starved before a general anaesthetic.
In another cubicle a patient is being treated for a bullet through the knee.
This complicates matters, because the mere fact of being in a hospital affects a patient's mood and behaviour.
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A few months ago, Dr. David Golden says, he had to fire a patient for being obnoxious.
That connection to your original decisions behind an investment can go a long way to being patient along the way with the results.
Hong Kong health officials said a patient who is being treated there arrived from Mexico on a China Eastern Airlines flight that stopped in Shanghai.
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Tele-monitoring is just one example of connected health - that is where a patient, while being cared for in their own home, can be observed from a hospital or health centre.
Partridge also notes that new therapies spring up in small pockets of the U.S., and if a therapy is not available in the city where the patient is being treated, it may not be considered a viable option by the oncologist.
In their experience, a patient can go from being in the Easy chair to ICU in 12 hours so they must rapidly intervene.
While I confess that I don't understand the difference between waiting "a considerable period" and being "patient, " it has become abundantly clear that the Fed's next move will be to raise rates.
Sheila Ghelani, the star of Nurse Knows Best - which involves the audience member being put to bed and treated as a patient, says she can get a "beautiful connection" with her audience of one.
Reagan painted a picture where he envisioned a Parkinson's disease patient being cured as the result of stem cell research.
It is most commonly used when a patient is declared dead after being brought into a hospital's accident and emergency department.
Another seven people were treated at the Lewisham Hospital, and one patient is described as being in a stable condition at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital.
This is particularly alarming because we are entering an era of personalized medicine where treatments and even medicines are being tailored to the individual genetic makeup of a patient.
One clinical trial investigator mailed in "before" and "after" X rays of a patient whose tumor vanished after being treated with Iressa, exclaiming that he had never seen this before.
Meanwhile, Mexican authorities are focusing on a young boy being referred to as "patient zero" by his doctors -- 5-year-old Edgar Hernandez, who survived the earliest documented case of the swine flu outbreak.
The company also said a medical zone intercom system would allow for the cabin and cockpit to be split into isolated zones, meaning medical teams could work on a patient without the flight crew being distracted.
Before being treated at Rampton, he had also been a patient at Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire.
Finally, they gave the instructions to a patient who had been diagnosed as being vegetative two years earlier.
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