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Duplicitous

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a. Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
b. An instance of deliberate deceptiveness; double-dealing.
2. The quality or state of being twofold or double.

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Insincere

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Not genuine

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Subjective

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Influenced by personal bias

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Subjective

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a. Dependent on or taking place in a person’s mind rather than the external world: “The sensation of pain is a highly subjective experience that varies by culture as well as by individual temperament and situation” (John Hoberman).
b. Based on a given person’s experience, understanding, and feelings; personal or individual: admitted he was making a highly subjective judgment.

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Objective

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a. Existing independent of or external to the mind; actual or real: objective reality.
b. Based on observable phenomena; empirical: objective facts.
2. Uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices: an objective

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Innate

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in·nate (ĭ-nāt′, ĭn′āt′)
adj.
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a. Existing naturally or by heredity rather than being learned through experience: “Chimpanzees show an innate distrust of contact with strangers” (Cindy Engel).
b. Of or produced by the mind rather than learned through experience: an innate knowledge of right and wrong.
2. Possessed as an essential characteristic; inherent: “As the Army and farmers built more and more levees, the Missouri lost an innate capacity to absorb its frequent excesses” (William Least Heat-Moon).

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Arbitrary

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Determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle: stopped at the first motel we passed, an arbitrary choice.
2. Based on or subject to individual judgment or preference: The diet imposes overall calorie limits, but daily menus are arbitrary.

. Determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle: stopped at the first motel we passed, an arbitrary choice.

  1. Law Relating to a decision made by a court or legislature that lacks a grounding in law or fact: an arbitrary penalty.
  2. Not limited by law; despotic: the arbitrary rule of a dictator.
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incrementally

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1. The process of increasing in number, size, quantity, or extent.
2. Something added or gained: a force swelled by increments from allied armies.
3. A slight, often barely perceptible augmentation.
4. One of a series of regular additions or contributions: accumulating a fund by increm

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Laborious

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Very demanding

My last job was extremely laborious ; almost to the point of severe exhaustion.

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Impartial

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Unbiased

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Facetious

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  1. characterized by levity of attitude and love of joking: a facetious person.
  2. jocular or amusing, esp at inappropriate times: facetious remarks.
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Archetypal

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Typical

The archetypal millennial couple.,,

An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype: “‘Frankenstein’ … ‘Dracula’ … ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ … the archetypes that have influenced all subsequent horror stories” (New York Times).
2. An ideal example of a type; quintessence: an archetype of the successful entrepreneur.
3. In Jungian psychology, an inherited pattern of thought or symbolic imagery derived from past collective experience and present in the individual unconscious.

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anonymity

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  1. the state or quality of being anonymous.
  2. an anonymous person.
    [1810–20]
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Subsidize

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  1. to furnish or aid with a subsidy.
  2. to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy.
  3. to secure the cooperation of by bribery; buy over.
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Altruism
Being altruistic

(ăl′tro͞o-ĭz′əm

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Unselfish; showing unselfish concern for others

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Egocentric

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Only caring about yourself

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vicariously

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Lavar Ball wants to live his basketball dream vicariously through his son Lonzo.

Experienced or felt by empathy with or imaginary participation in the life of another person: read about mountain climbing and experienced vicarious thrills.
2. Endured or done by one person substituting for another: vicarious punishment.
3. Committed or entrusted to another, as powers or authority; delegated.
4. Physiology Occurring in or performed by a part of the body not normally associated with a certain function.

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Egregious

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adj.
Conspicuously bad or offensive. See Synonyms at flagrant.

Lawyer Justin Bamberg represents Thomas’s family. He said, “The jury did not convict Chad Copley because a prosecutor injected race into the case. They convicted Chad Copley because of how egregious his actions were.”

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Imminent

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Foreseeable

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Incommodious

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Causing inconvenience

Many transplants in Connecticut can be surprised as to how incommodious the DMV can be.

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Resurge

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To rise again, become resurgent.

If you have lost your mojo, be patient; hopefully it will resurge

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Fascilitate

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  1. To make easy or easier: political agreements that facilitated troop withdrawals.
  2. To lead (a discussion), as by asking questions, mediating between opposing viewpoints, or ensuring that all participants’ views are heard.
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Ambiguity

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  1. vagueness or uncertainty of meaning: there are several ambiguities in the situation.
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Moral imperative

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something that must happen because it is right

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Economic viability

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Economic viability is when a project proves to be economically feasible, innovative and sustainable in terms of investing financial resources into the project. Funding for the project must be compatible with the demands and constraints that occur during the project’s life span.

Economic viability means that market operation is sustainable regarding current and projected revenues. The revenues will be greater than or equal to all current and planned expenditures. In simple terms, any project or activity that can financially support itself is economically viable. Using farming as an example, economic viability refers to the ability and capacity of a farm to ‘make a living’ annually.

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Inept

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Lacking or showing a lack of skill or competence; bungling or clumsy: an inept actor; an inept performance.

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Resonate

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Relate

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Sedentary

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Accustomed to sitting or to taking little exercise.
3. Remaining or living in one area; not migratory: sedentar

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Solidarity

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Unity of purpose, interest, or sympathy: People gathered to show solidarity with the earthquake victims.

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ambiguous

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  1. having more than one possible interpretation or meaning
  2. difficult to understand or classify; obscure
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Asset allocation

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Asset allocation is the implementation of an investment strategy that attempts to balance risk versus reward by adjusting the percentage of each asset in an investment portfolio according to the investor’s risk tolerance, goals and investment time frame.

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Recant

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withdraw or disavow; revoke, rescind, deny: He recanted his confession.

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Robust

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ch strength or energy: a robust workout.
4.
a. Active or dynamic: a robust debate; a robust economy.
b. Working in an effective way; effective or productive: a robust search engine; a robust hypothesis.
5. Marked by richness and fullness; full-bodied: a robust wine.
6. Substantial in amount: robust gains in stock prices.
7. Rough or crude; coarse: a robust tale.

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Sedentary

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Dormant

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Inherent

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Innate; existing as a permanent, inseparable element or quality: an inherent love for animals

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gentrification

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The restoration and upgrading of deteriorated urban property by middle-class or affluent people, often resulting in displacement of lower-income people.

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counterintuitive

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(of an idea, proposal, etc) seemingly contrary to common sense

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Fruition
fru·i·tion (fro͞o-ĭsh′ən)

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Realization of something desired or worked for; accomplishment: labor finally coming to fruition.

Enjoyment derived from use or possession.

The condition of bearing fruit.

39
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Liaison

Lee-A-zon

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. One that maintains communication:

“served as the president’s liaison with Congres”

40
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Polarized

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  1. To cause to divide into two conflicting or opposing groups

: The issue of slavery polarized the nation.

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Epidemiology

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The branch of medicine that deals with the study of the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations.

42
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unequivocally

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Admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; clear and unambiguous:

they stated unequivocally that his heart disease began in childhood →

43
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Quid pro quo

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One hand washes the other

: something given or received for something else
also : a deal arranging a quid pro

44
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indigent

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poor; impoverished; distressed:

The indigent street people are often ignored.

How do you market high quality to the indigent?

45
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anecdotal evidence

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Based on casual observations or indications rather than rigorous or scientific analysis:

There are plenty of African American trump supporters

Answer:that’s anecdotal evidence, that’s not the totality

46
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Aggregate

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Constituting or amounting to a whole; total:

Revenues will aggregate more than one million dollars.

47
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equanomous

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The quality of being calm and even-tempered; in full control of your faculties, composure, balanced.

A good theater director must be extremely equanimous and when something goes wrong and the whole cast starts giving up, he must be the only who hopes and believes in success.
It is not too much to say that his imperturbable equanimity, his serene bonhomie kept the host together.

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Etiology

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Study of the origin of disease

Epidimology -study of population

49
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Nescient

(Like Ned)

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Being ignorant.

“Mr. Frank’s heart tightened ever so slightly before yet another sea of nescient freshman faces in the auditorium.”

50
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Reclusive

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Living alone and avoiding going outside or talking to other people.

A reclusive movie star is the one tabloid photographers dream of capturing on film.

51
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Inkling

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. A slight hint or indication.

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amicable

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Characterized by or exhibiting friendliness or goodwill; friendly.

characterized by friendliness: an amicable agreement

53
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polarizing

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. to divide into sharply opposing factions or groups: The controversy has polarized voters

Slavery was a polarizing issue in the 1800’s between the north and south

54
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implausible

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Difficult to believe

55
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Fortitude

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Courage in pain or adversity.

56
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Condescending

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Talking down to
Talking to someone as if they were stupid or ignorant

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Effusive

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marked by the expression of great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm

Effusive welcome

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Conceptualize

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To form a concept or concepts of, and especially to interpret in a conceptual way: This cabaret performance was conceptualized as a homage to vaudeville

59
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Outlier

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. A value far from most others in a set of data: “Outliers make statistical analyses difficult” (Harvey Motulsky).

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Efficacy
Self efficacy

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the ability to produce a desired or intended result. “Effectiveness”
“there is little information on the efficacy of this treatment

My job is to get you guys to understand that you can control your own self efficacy. It is possible. You must put the work in first.

capacity for producing a desired result or effect; effectiveness
Self confidence

61
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Pareto principle

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80/20 rule

Making the smallest changes(20)which resulted in the largest impact(80).

62
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Sensitivity and specificity?

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Sensitivity = true positive; how accurate a test can locate the true positive - calling a clot or wma

Specificity: true negative; how accurate a test can identify a true negative or false positive.
- calling a spot on the image as artifact

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Exacerbate

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intensify; worsen; inflame; increase the severity of:

“Her response only exacerbated the situation.”

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Benchmark/milestone

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A standard by which something can be measured or judged:

65
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Mitigate

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To make less severe or intense; moderate or alleviate

66
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Hepatology
Transplant hepatologist

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Study of liver

67
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Where do we base the cost of oil on stock market?

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West Texas Intermediate

68
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Coronary CTO?

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Chronic total occlusion

69
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It’s a completely different paradigm

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  1. A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline.
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Antiquated

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Too old to be fashionable, suitable, or useful; outmoded. See Synonyms at old.
2. Very old; aged: “They were always chippering and chatting to each other, like a pair of antiquated house-sparrows” (Harriet Beecher Stowe).

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Diverticulum

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Small pointy out pouch in the apex

72
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Value Based Care

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Defined by health outcomes achieved per dollar spent . (Opposite of Fee-for-service care)

73
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Theoretically

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In theory

74
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Concurrent

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  1. Happening, existing, or done at the same time as something else
75
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Value based care

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Patient centered care
Reducing hospital re-admissions

76
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Continuum of Care (CoC

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Regional or local planing body that coordinates housing and services funding homeless and individuals

77
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Benchmark

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n.
1. A standard by which something can be measured or judged: “Inflation … is a great distorter of seemingly fixed economic ideas and benchmarks” (Benjamin M. Friedman).

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Efficacy

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the quality of being successful in producing an intended result; effectiveness

79
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Multiple Myloma

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In multiple myeloma, cancerous plasma cells build up in bone marrow. The bone marrow is the soft matter inside bones where blood cells are made. In the bone marrow, the cancer cells crowd out healthy blood cells. Rather than make helpful antibodies, the cancer cells make proteins that don’t work right. This leads to complications of multiple myeloma.

Treatment- stem cell transplant and/or chemotherapy

80
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nuance

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a subtle difference in colour, meaning, tone, etc; a shade or graduation

You may notice small nuances between techs with wall thickness measurements.

81
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Can hear your heartbeat in your head

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Pulsatile Tinnitus

The most common symptom of pulsatile tinnitus is regularly hearing a steady beat or whooshing sound. The beat or sound is often in synch with the patient’s heartbeat. When their heart rate increases, the beat or sound will become faster; when it decreases, the beat or sound will slow.

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What is the profit made called by a non profit organization?

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Net asset( rather than profit). It’s computed by deducting expenses and losses from the amount of revenue.

83
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reticent

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unwilling to speak; reserved; taciturn, uncommunicative: She was reticent to answer our questions.

84
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Doing things at a macro level

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. at or on a level that is large in scale or scope

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Substantiated

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  1. to establish as valid or genuine
  2. To prove the truth of or support with proof or evidence: substantiate an accusation. See Synonyms at confirm.
  3. To give substance to; make real or actual.
    Is there actual performance or behavioral issues that can be substantiated???
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Value Based Care

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Value-based care is a form of reimbursement that ties payments for care delivery to the quality of care provided and rewards providers for both efficiency and effectiveness. This form of reimbursement has emerged as an alternative and potential replacement for fee-for-service reimbursement, which pays providers retrospectively for services delivered based on bill charges or annual fee schedules.

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Primacy bias

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Unfortunately, Primacy Biases are sort of inherent plagues which affect our students.
I am trying to get students to understand the importance of primacy bias. Misunderstandings or personality conflicts which occur in the beginning of the program are very hard to reverse once these biases are set in place.

First impression. Minority’s tend to suffer due to initial stereotypes which are mixed with primacy biases. They are very tough to overcome and typically leads to a downward spiral of these individuals.

Long- last a long time
Strong - tough to overcome
Built Upon- environment is always looking for info to support their bias and 1st impression

88
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Recency bias

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Recent impression
You’re only as good as your last game!!

89
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efficacy

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the quality of being successful in producing an intended result; effectiveness

capacity or power to produce a desired effect; “concern about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine”

90
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Indelible

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Unable to be forgotten; memorable:

an indelible memory.

91
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gratuitous

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uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted.
“gratuitous violence

being without apparent reason, cause, or justification: a gratuitous insult

Unnecessary or unwarranted; unjustified: gratuitous criticism

Gratuitous judgement was made against me

law given or made without receiving any value in return: a gratuitous agreement.

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Opaque

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So obscure as to be unintelligible

opaque - not clearly understood or expressed

93
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Unhinged

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deranged or unbalanced

94
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Infallible

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incapable of making mistakes or being wrong.
“doctors are not infallible

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