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 ML> The whole business of insurance is to get the best possible
 ML> return for the least possible exposure, which means hiding
 ML> behind every rock in the desert, especially the luxurious
 ML> ones put up by the legislatures.
 NB> Sad, ain't it...

Human nature - no changing it.

 ML> True, but hospital administrators are a lizard of a different
 ML> feather.
 NB> I suppose.

One of the benefits of the ambitious administrators - every
little intern and resident in the ER here has the use (and has
been trained to use) the ultrasound machine. A decade ago,
this was an esoteric skill for which one had to go to school
special.

 ML> Out here, even the mergers are troublesome. When I had my
 ML> latest heart procedure, the surgeon gleefully opined that
 ML> the reason it was necessary was because the previous one
 ML> had been botched - by another world-famous hospital owned
 ML> by the same group. 
 NB> I wouldn't say there was none of that here, but it seems to be more
 NB> doctor to doctor, and sometimes justifiably...  But personally, I seem
 NB> to have collected doctors that appreciate each other... even when they
 NB> end up being in what end up, at least for a while, competing hospital
 NB> systems... at least until the next merger, perhaps... ;)  I could tell
 NB> stories of how things evolved...  ;)
 

 NB> Continuingly interesting...  :)   Some of the alternatives to my
 NB> Prilosec have been interesting combos that didn't work at all for me,
 NB> in fact most have been worse... I've wondered sometimes about what
 NB> that research had been about.... ;)
 
 ML> And now Novartis has announced that layoffs at the plant that
 ML> produces both Diovan and the generic version I buy will start
 ML> on December 1, with the plant to close altogether around the
 ML> end of 2016.
 NB> That doesn't sound like a particularly good development... I suppose
 NB> they could manufacture them elsewhere...
 
 -=> Nancy Backus said to Dale Shipp <=-

 DS> never got there then since we lived in central Florida.  Then I came
 DS> back on a trip from Panama and changed planes in Miami.  It was a
 DS> cultural shock to see all of the signs in dual English/Spanish. 
 DS> Perhaps it always had a strong Cuban population, but I never realized
 DS> it at the time (50's). 

Funny thing I discovered about Panama. A lot of the signs
are in dual English/Spanish, and the US dollar is the official
currency; but few of the people speak a lick of English.

 NB> It's certainly taken over since then... nowadays, my friend Linda says
 NB> that the dominant language, especially in the hospitals, is Spanish...

Recent discovery: there is no dominant language in the
hospital here among the support staff, from whom I have
heard Russian, Kreyol, Spanish, a couple African dialects,
and more proper French.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

      Title: Jesse's Chicken Enchiladas
 Categories: Emeril, Latino, Poultry, Enchiladas
      Yield: 4 Servings

      4    Boneless, skinless chicken
           Breasts
      8 oz Package cream cheese,
           Softened
      1 md Onion, chopped
      1 ts Salt
      1 ts Black pepper
  1 1/2 ts Garlic powder
     14 oz Can chopped tomatoes
      4 oz Can chopped green chiles
  1 1/2 ts Ground cumin
      1 ts Ground coriander
    1/2 ts Ground curry powder
    1/2 ts Garlic powder
           Hot pepper sauce
      1 c  Sour cream, plus more for
           Garnish
           Non-stick cooking spray
      8 lg Flour tortillas
      2 c  Mozzarella cheese, shredded
      1 c  Monterey Jack cheese,
           Shredded
           For garnish: chopped lettuce
           Diced tomatoes

  Jesse Arbuckle, Parker Fire Dept., Parker, CO

  In medium saucepan with cold water, place chicken and boil for 30
  min. Remove chicken from water and let cool. Preheat oven to 375
  degrees. Once cooled, dice chicken and place in medium bowl. Add
  cream cheese, onion, half the salt, half the pepper, and 1 teaspoon
  of garlic powder. Combine ingredients well and set aside. In a
  blender, add tomatoes with juice, chiles, cumin, coriander, curry,
  remaining garlic powder, salt and pepper, and 5 to 6 dashes of hot
  pepper sauce. Blend until smooth. Add sour cream and blend until
  incorporated. Spray a 9 by 13-inch pan with cooking spray. Place
  tortilla on work surface and fill with about 1/4 cup of chicken
  mixture and roll into a cylinder. Lay tortillas evenly into prepared
  pan. Pour tomato sauce over tortillas. Cover with foil and bake for
  45 min. Remove foil. Cover with shredded cheese and return to
  oven for 5 to 10 min or until cheese is melted. Serve with
  lettuce, tomatoes, and additional sour cream.

  Yield: 4 servings

  SOURCE: Emeril Live! Cooking Show Copyright 1998, TV FOOD NETWORK;
  SHOW #EM1B66

  MM Format by Dave Drum - 10 January 2000 FROM: Uncle Dirty Dave's
  Kitchen

MMMMM


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