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So we'll give him a couple hundred dollars of Ensure, and I'll take great pleasure in violating the principle of cost-efficacy.†
Chpt 1.3

efficacy = effectiveness
She gave him the information and then told him, in effect, "Surely you are collecting these leaves in order to better understand their power and improve their efficacy."†
Chpt 2.8 *
It was more profound than other sentiments I'd known, and I was taken with the idea that in an ostensibly godless world that worshiped money and power or, more seductively, a sense of personal efficacy and advancement, like at Duke and Harvard, there was still a place to look for God, and that was in the suffering of the poor.†
Chpt 2.9
He'd already ruled out noncompliance, he felt, and poor drug quality couldn't be blamed—international experts had certified the drugs' efficacy.†
Chpt 3.15
He went on, "One thing that comes back to me, with all this cost-efficacy crap, if I saved one patient in my whole life, that wouldn't be too bad.†
Chpt 4.20
"It's not about the quest for personal efficacy," as Paul himself liked to say.†
Chpt 5.24

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