As we say, the patients are the real experts -- we just need to create the opportunities to capture their insight and design products that truly address their needs.

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Investing in whatever we need, whether it is efficiency experts, better computer monitoring programs or devising programs to increase the effectiveness of existing inspection methods, we need to do it.

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We need to distinguish between the true experts and those engaged in predatory conduct.

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We need our technicians and our legal experts, from both sides of the Atlantic, to continue their dialogue to improve the Safe Harbour agreement as well as other missing elements.

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Experts believed that tough, top-down controls would dispense with inefficiencies: Insurance companies would relentlessly cut back payments for hundreds of medical procedures, which would force hospitals, clinics and physicians to get their acts together, thereby boosting productivity and cutting costs. (Managed care's methods are close cousins to what you see in nationalized health care systems.) Because of these anticipated efficiencies, experts figured we would need fewer doctors.

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We need to see some urgent movement as experts have raised some serious issues.

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But, despite this broadening of the issue and what most experts argue is unequivocal scientific proof that we need to act immediately to avoid even more serious consequences, so far activists agree that the necessary changes aren't coming nearly fast enough.

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We have now, if there were no climate change, we would be sitting, having a discussion with agricultural experts about the need to increase the world's food supply by 50%.

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