Yet, even among this 50 percent, not all private practices areas are in trouble.
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At the moment, all the brightest law students head straight for private practices.
Such are the issues raised by biomarker testing, which has gained a foothold in executive-wellness programs across the country as well as among some private practices.
And then there is the new generation of salaried staff physicians who want no part of the 80 hour work weeks that used to be standard fare when doctors ran their own private practices.
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Furthermore, the cost of care will only continue to rise as we shift into a consolidated healthcare system and programs like Medicare allow higher payments for services performed in hospitals as opposed to independent private practices.
The financial problems are typically experienced by a portion of the remaining 50 percent who wish to operate their own private practices and, as a result, find themselves suffering from the financial stresses faced by so many small businesses in these difficult times.
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Private practices are shutting down.
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In December 2004 Dr. Peter Eisenberg and his colleagues at California Cancer Care, one of the largest private cancer practices in the Bay Area, got a letter from Amgen.
But the doctor's career has been built on spreading private-sector practices into the American hospital industry, which is dominated by not-for-profit institutions.
The landscape of tax avoidance and bank secrecy in offshore tax havens changed due to individuals who blew the whistle on private offshore banking practices.
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KKR's early success owed partly to relationships it developed with experts at trusted firms like Simpson Thacher, still one of the leading private equity law practices.
In the short term, we might see private industry adopt defensive practices.
It already has a to-do list: Congress has ordered it to study reverse mortgages, private education-loan practices, why consumers who buy credit scores get numbers different from the ones lenders get and whether arbitration is the right way to settle financial disputes.
This is an important move, and a laudable step as it pushes federal government IT practices more towards private sector efficiency levels.
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She said that the UK can take "real pride" in its efforts to improve debt relief, and that the bill would extend public sector practices to the private and commercial sector.
These safeguards, which have been largely modeled on successful practices in the private sector, will increase stability, productivity, and certainty in Federal contracting by avoiding the disruption and disarray caused by the use of trafficked labor and resulting investigative and enforcement actions.
To do this, governments need to work with the private sector and learn from best practices around the world.
He warned of the risks of allowing non-lawyers to own legal practices, and said private capital could jeopardise the independence of law firms.
Since buying up practices has historically led to increased prices, payers (private and public) have a strong desire to not have all practices get gobbled up by large enterprises.
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The City will accomplish this by launching the RFI, and working with private sector service providers to determine best practices and innovative solutions that will allow the low-cost broadband to be developed.
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Likewise, since the cost of consuming human capital is regularly transferred to taxpayers and individuals, perverse HR practices devalue both public and private goods, and deprive the national economy of consumers, market participants, and a steadfast citizenry.
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In general, the goodies have come less in the form of pay rises (too visible), than in over-generous pensions and health care, early retirement and the sort of restrictive practices that were chased out of the private sector years ago.
In recent years, Apple has faced private antitrust suits and government investigations into its policies and practices.
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Without prominent notice and known monitoring practices, its reasonable to expect that your private communications will not be subject to surveillance.
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Steve Kaplan, attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, practices in the areas of venture capital and private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and other commercial transactions.
David Balto, a former policy director for the Federal Trade Commission, now in private practice, says that the legal definition of anticompetitive practices has changed since 1998.
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In June, the Hartford Group released a white paper identifying eight ways small business owners can reduce the likelihood of a data breach, including secure remote access through the deployment of a virtual private network (VPN) and regular review of data security practices.
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