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POPS Need A Specialist Fast? Too Bad You're Not A Dog

by merrie 5-13-2008

And where care for our dogs, cats and horses puts our own system to the greatest shame is in the domain of wait times and access to specialists. Our pets may not be able to talk, but they can get an appointment with a primary care vet within 24 hours and a specialist within the week. "I have a friend who had a dog with cancer and it got treatment within two weeks," says Tina Kelly, an IT buyer in Waterloo, Ont. "For something like that in a human, I bet the response would've been 10 times as long." There are just 10,800 vets in this country compared to over 62,000 human doctors. But try, as a human, to get an appointment with a specialist. Try, for that matter, getting a GP — five million Canadians, about 15 per cent of the population, don't have one, while 15 per cent of those who do still report trouble receiving routine care. And a referral from your family doctor to a specialist puts you in store for a new ordeal. According to the most recent edition of "Waiting Your Turn...

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POPS Even at Megastores, Hagglers Find No Price Is Set in Stone

by rmowery 3-23-2008

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POPS Clinton Campaign on Obama's lead

by willhelm 2-29-2008

I see the comment by Wolfson as foreshadowing of a Clinton power play if she can manage to pull a respectable showing on Tuesday. Buyers remorse? That is strange indeed. Sounds to me like a case they might want to make at the Convention if the delegate count is tight.

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POPS Why Google Wins: Really Fast Data

by Andy Greenberg 12-4-2007

Om Malik does an interesting analysis of Google's real advantage: the Web's fastest supply chain in delivering data. To be fair, Google's initial advantage was its search algorithm. But I think he's right that as the company's other products like Apps and the coming Gdrive mature, super-fast data movement will keep Google on top of the heap.

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POPS There's always something good!!