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A new electronic record-keeping system could eliminate the rows of manila folders with patient records in Dr. Harvey Benovitz’s office on the Upper West Side.

 For Dr. Harvey Benovitz, who graduated from medical school in 1962, it is as profound a shift in the way he treats patients as advances in diabetes drugs.

Instead of jotting down notes on charts and filling out prescriptions in his small, meticulous handwriting, Dr. Benovitz, whose patients have always thought of him as a reassuringly old-fashioned internist, tapped a patient’s blood pressure and other vitals into a laptop next to the examining table during a checkup the other day.

Not only will this new electronic record-keeping system eliminate the rows upon rows of bursting manila folders stuffed into what could be another examination room in the back of Dr. Benovitz’s cramped office on the Upper West Side. It allows him to compare the patient’s blood pressure management with all his other patients’ — and with those in hundreds of private medical practices across New York City. Read more..

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ALBUQUERQUE, Dec. 30 (UPI) — A New Mexico researcher says the rap music that emerged from New York in the 1970s had its roots in a medieval Scottish tradition.

Professor Ferenc Szasz of the University of New Mexico said modern rap, which was developed by African-American youths in New York’s Bronx borough, descended from the Scottish practice of “flyting,” which involved the trading of elaborate rhyming insults, The Sun reported Monday.

Szasz said his research found Scottish colonialists in the United States taught flyting to slaves on plantations in the South. Read more..

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“I fear that sending rebates at a time of financial deficit will only make the deficit get deeper,” said Ken Stern, 58, an energy consultant who owns a co-op on the Upper East Side. Mr. Stern said he had not expected to receive his $400 this year, so he did not know yet what he would do with the money. “My overriding consideration at this time is the city’s financial condition,” he said. “But I suppose if I had my druthers, I would get something for my daughter. Yes, that would be my plan.” Once a pre-holiday treat for New York City homeowners, this year’s $400 property tax rebate from City Hall will be a post-holiday windfall or a lifesaver, depending on a household’s financial bottom line. Resurrected by an unusually rebellious City Council, which pressured Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg into backing off his threat to withhold them to help close a budget shortfall, the rebate checks are in the mail and should be arriving at the beginning of the new year. But if many people used the money to buy extra gifts in years past, this time, their needs are more prosaic.

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One of the three dissident senators who has challenged Queens Senator Malcolm Smith’s move to become Democratic majority leader, says that he’ll now challenge Governor Paterson’s plans for budget cuts. Bronx State Senator Ruben Diaz Senior says he represents the poorest district in the senate, and it would bear an unfair impact of those cuts.

DIAZ: The governor refused to tax the rich, but he wants to cut the services of the poor. We have always been criticizing the Republicans for doing exactly that. Read more..

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