Mr Strasser wonders whether a public school would recognise that his children have two fathers, or if a hospital would allow both of them to visit if one of their children fell ill.
For example, linear actuators help raise or lower a hospital bed or allow solar panels to track the path of the sun.
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Among the changes to the original proposals are plans to allow hospital doctors and nurses - not just GPs - to be part of new commissioning consortia.
Ms. Lefebvre said the network emerged as the best option because it would allow the hospital to become financially sustainable, while also offering help for the broader Brooklyn health system.
There are still senior officials in the health service and politics who were involved with Stafford Hospital at the time (NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson was head of the regional health authority, while shadow health secretary Andy Burnham signed papers to allow the hospital to pursue foundation trust status when Labour was in power).
The Royal Surrey County Hospital has warned patients to allow extra time to get to appointments.
Fiona Hyett, from the hospital, said home laundering would allow it to buy staff new "better quality scrub suits".
Sixteen state hospital associations operate Web sites that allow comparison shopping for such inpatient procedures as appendectomies, maternity stays and knee or hip replacements: Georgia, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin.
But new, minimally invasive surgeries now allow people to be out of the hospital in about three days and back to their normal routine in a week or two, Suri said.
The decision by New York Presbyterian Hospital not to discipline Dr. Moses and to allow him to continue to operate was made in light of the negative tests and a court-ordered examination of Dr. Moses in May 2006 by a forensic psychiatrist who opined that he had no cocaine addiction problem.
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Correspondents say it is hoped that such an order may allow victims to be taken to the nearest hospital regardless of whether it is private or state-run.
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Dr Evan Harris, a former Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West and Abingdon and a former hospital doctor, said the prompted choice pilot would still allow people to "skip the question" of donating their organs by selecting the "I do not want to answer this now" option.
He added also suggested that doctors were less likely to allow women to have a natural birth if the hospital is busy.
Dr Palle Palmer, from Karolinska University Hospital, said the treatment would buy the patient some time and allow her body to recover.
"A lot of them, and the services they provide, are underused, and certainly the minor injuries unit at Flint hospital is underused, which is important because it doesn't allow the nurses running it to maintain their experience according to their professional bodies, " added Mr Scriven.
She said the group, which represents nurses, was pleased University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust had offered a last-minute discount to allow 180 off-island operations to go ahead in December.
District Judge Howard Riddle agreed to allow him to switch from Fromeside to Blaise View mental health hospital in Bristol, which was described as a more "open, relaxed and calm environment".
Other ideas for development include using mobile phone technology to allow residents to find the quietest route into the city centre or the hospital Accident and Emergency unit with the shortest waiting time.
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Working with primary care doctors to encourage them to allow the nursing facility to treat many acute episodes rather than ordering patients back to the hospital.
Russell said he hopes that by the fall, the FDA will give him permission to allow adult diabetic patients to leave the building and walk the grounds of the Massachusetts General Hospital campus accompanied by a nurse, eating as they like and using the hospital's gym.
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Remote monitoring systems allow emergency medical technicians to administer powerful cardiac drugs in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
Instead, the challenge for the NHS is how to best manage these patients to allow them to live independent and healthy lives and, as a result, keep them out of hospital.
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