Checkup, aisle 3.Here's some good news, for a change. Those walk-in medical clinics you see at Wal-Mart, Walgreens, CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. , and other stores, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a study by the RAND Corporation Rand Corporation, research institution in Santa Monica, Calif.; founded 1948 and supported by federal, state, and local governments, as well as by foundations and corporations. Its principal fields of research are national security and public welfare. reported by the Washington Post's Margaret Shapiro, "provide care for routine illnesses that is as good as, and costs less than, similar care offered in doctors' offices, hospital emergency rooms and urgent care centers." This is especially important news with regard to emergency rooms, where so many health care dollars are squandered squan·der tr.v. squan·dered, squan·der·ing, squan·ders 1. To spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate. See Synonyms at waste. 2. providing gold-plated care for minor ailments. Shapiro calls the cost savings in the case of these emergency rooms "quite dramatic." Charles Peters is the founding editor of the Washington Monthly. |
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