On the wait-time issue, expect more waiting
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Well, that&#39;s settled then, isn&#39;t it? Paul Martin, the magpie of a Prime Minister, has declared the issue of wait times for medical treatments to be his government&#39;s priority. And the Canadian Medical Association this week threw its ...
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The latest glitch with its flagship product shows why the company may still have trouble fulfilling its enormous expectations
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Are there ever âshorter than expectedâ hold times on phone help lines and other perplexing questions.
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The national transplant waiting list has grown to more than 87,000 because organ donations from the dead have not kept up with demand. For help, frustrated patients increasingly are turning to the living &#151; even to strangers. That worries bioethicists, surgeons and federal officials who oversee the transplant system, which is designed to treat all patients fairly.
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Customers want the service, changes are in the works, and counting Vonage out could be a mistake.
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Patients on average spent more time waiting for a doctor in hospital emergency rooms in 2004 than they did seven years earlier, according to federal statistics announced Friday.
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Forget instant gratification. Buybacks are worth the wait.
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When the game console will be available here remains uncertain.
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Slowdown will give big companies more time to hunt down compatibility problems, the company says.
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A delayed battery technology may indeed be on the way.
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The latest acquisition shows promise, but it will take time to see results.
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The popular technology promises to make computing easier, but it takes time to get up to speed.
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Deadline for federal agencies' policies for dealing with data breaches approaches and it's not yet clear whether everyone will be done in time.
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Despite burgeoning demand for hybrids, carmakers remain conservative about manufacturing them. So, if you want one, be prepared to wait. By John Gartner.
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It's official. Postal delivery is as slow as snails, at least in Poland.
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When I suggested in a recent column that a problematic 5 percent of employees account for 75 percent of the IT support burden, I expected a wave of âright on!â letters from IT support staffers. After the column was published, the letters did come â most of them disagreeing with my premise, with one reader suggesting that the real whiner was yours truly. I still think itâs outside the realm of overextended IT departments to provide training on basic computing skills (which I defined as âmanaging and finding files, and basic working knowledge of suites such as MS Officeâ). But my thinking was adjusted a bit by the thoughtful feedback.
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Kidney exchanges are helping doctors shorten transplant waiting lists, but they also pose serious challenges.