She was the only girl to pick caving as a sports elective in grade school.
This epidemic of uncertain care is an unintended outgrowth of a decades-long boom in elective surgery.
The harsh truth about early elective deliveries is that our payment system encourages them.
You see this problem in elective angioplasty heart procedures, in radiology, in back surgery.
In 2001, patients requiring elective surgery could wait as long as 18 months for an operation.
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They also want to establish dedicated elective surgery centres, which, they suggest, private companies could run.
Of those, 9.6% were elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks without a medical reason.
The result has been a steady rise in "early term" elective inductions using labor-stimulating drugs.
He has never held elective office, whereas Mr Earley is a former attorney-general and state senator.
Even now, American Jews by the thousand spend weekends performing elective surgery on their automobiles.
They found that babies born by elective Caesarean section had an increased risk of general respiratory problems.
Independent treatment centres are expected, for example, to provide 7-8% of publicly financed elective care by 2008.
This provided a full slate of elective courses focused on technology and entrepreneurship, with immersion in the Valley.
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Corporate Governance is not a standard class in most B-schools, showing up as an elective if at all.
That, and the fact that he never held elective office disqualifies him as a serious candidate for president.
Already, by the end of this year, private providers will carry out around 4% of publicly financed elective treatments.
The school this fall will introduce an elective track focused on analytics and also will start working with IBM.
Earlier, the PCT said it was investigating the "uncommon" deaths of two patients following elective surgery at the centre.
All elective surgery, a total of 10 operations, at the hospital were cancelled due to the threat of flooding.
The cards also can drive up business, since they allow patients to finance expensive elective procedures they might otherwise forgo.
If we need to attract people in to run some of these dedicated units working around elective surgery, let's do it.
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On the down side, however, she has never run for elective office, has no domestic-policy experience and says she's not interested.
Ramone, who lived in Wilton, Connecticut, had elective surgery on Feb. 27 to prevent an aortic aneurysm, son Matt Ramone said.
With the ANC's national elective conference in Mangaung scheduled for the end of the year, the stakes are higher than ever.
Like Goethe's classic novel "Elective Affinities" (glimpsed in the film), "Jules and Jim" confronts the dangers and exigencies of free will.
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Although never having held elective office, he is showing remarkable strength and balance both on the road and in presidential debates.
The researchers conclude that significantly fewer babies would develop breathing problems if elective Caesareans were put off until 39 weeks gestation.
That helped propel the 57-year-old Hollande, who has never formally held any national elective office, to become his party's presidential choice.
Two years ago, TriHealth Inc. in Cincinnati began barring elective inductions without medical necessity before 39 weeks at its two hospitals.
We've been forced to cancel elective operations so that we can maintain the flow of patients that are brought in by ambulance.
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