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for Popular Government Vol. 45 Issue 2, Fall 1979
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Rurality of North Carolina has crated a severe dilemma in health care because it is difficult to make medical services readily available. Although by no means complete, North Carolina is solving this problem through physician recruitment and increase in health departments.
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In 1979, the Wake Medical Center agreed to pay $1.15 million to settle a malpractice case out of court. At the same time, a malpractice suit was filed against the Wake County Health Department alleging negligence. Both of these suits give cause to reevaluate the actions taken by the 1976 North Carolina General Assembly to ward off a perceived, impending malpractice crisis.
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Hudson and Butts discuss the study of deaths in North Carolina prisons and jails from 1972 to 1976 in order to examine the causes of death; this study is useful in averting future prison deaths.
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Much of the current national debate on medical cost containment has centered on ways to restrain rising hospital rates. This article discusses North Carolina's efforts to control hospital inflation.
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Concern over state and local government employee pension plans have increased significantly over the past ten years given tremendous growth in government employment during the sixties and seventies, and economic difficulties of the late seventies. Smith examines how North Carolina's system of pension and retirement stacks up to congressional findings.
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