A week in the life of a hospital.
The same urgency and intellect that America's teaching hospitals apply to saving lives is now also going into saving the institutions themselves. All across the country, academic medical centers are trying to figure out how to marry progress with profits. At the Duke University Medical Center, TIME visits the front line in the war between money and medicine.
Gibbs
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Thompson
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D
Van Biema
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D
Lacayo
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Park
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A
Cohen
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A
Monroe
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Gwynne
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Seaman
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