The Effect of Patient Education on the Perceptions of Resident Participation in Surgical Care.
To decipher if patient attitudes toward resident participation in their surgical care can be improved with patient education regarding resident roles, education, and responsibilities. An anonymous questionnaire was created and distributed in outpatient surgery clinics that had residents involved with patient care. In total, 3 groups of patients were surveyed, a control group and 2 intervention groups. Each intervention group was given an informational pamphlet explaining the role, education, and responsibilities of residents. The first pamphlet used an analogy-based explanation. The second pamphlet used literature citations and statistics. Keesler Medical Center, Keesler AFB, MS. University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX. A total of 454 responses were collected and analyzed-211in an orgy of unsustainability.

Socialists are also misled by their own successes. Where the government prevents markets from forming, people are free to cast off their honest valuations and indulge in an orgy of unsustainability. They pump sludge into government-owned rivers. They clog government-owned roads. Government replaces the healthcare market with a healthcare system, allowing drug-makers to triple their prices. Joe the Voter buys crazy things Joe the Consumer never would: a sprawling government bureaucracy, unimaginably wasteful wars, a surveillance state, a voracious prison system, and so on.

These programs are, unfortunately, insulated from profit and from its goateed alter-ego: loss. As useful as the profit motive is for encouraging entrepreneurship, the loss motive may be even more valuable. If your meatloaf is terrible, the market will nudge you