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 New Jersey Hospital Has Highest Billing Rates in the Nation

By JULIE CRESWELL, BARRY MEIER and JO CRAVEN McGINTY

The Bayonne Medical Center billed Medicare for common treatments at a rate more than four times the national average, according to a Times analysis of 2011 data.

Wandering Jew, in literary and popular legend, a Jew who mocked or mistreated Jesus while he was on his way to the cross and who was condemned therefore to a life of wandering on earth until Judgment Day. The story of this wanderer was first recorded in the chronicles of Roger of Wendover and Matthew of Paris (13th cent.), but not until the early 17th cent. was he identified as a Jew. The story is common in Western Europe, but it presents marked national variations. Among the innumerable treatments of the subject is Shelley's Queen Mab.


Bibliography
See G. K. Anderson, The Legend of the Wandering Jew (1965); G. Hasan-Rokem and A. Dundes, ed., The Wandering Jew: Essays in the Interpretation of a Christian Legend (1986).

wandering jew


wandering
(wŏn'dər-ĭng)
n.
A Jew of medieval legend condemned to wander until the Day of Judgment for having mocked Jesus on the day of the Crucifixion.

treatment

Pronunciation: /ˈtriːtm(ə)nt/

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Definition of treatment

noun

[mass noun]

• 1the manner in which someone behaves towards or deals with someone or something:the directive required equal treatment for men and women in social security schemes
• the presentation or discussion of a subject:comparison with earlier artists is useful in analysis of the treatment of women in her painting
• (the full treatment) informal used to indicate that something is done enthusiastically, vigorously, or to an extreme degree:a bit of soft-shoe shuffle got the full treatment

• 2medical care given to a patient for an illness or injury:I’m receiving treatment for an injured shoulder [count noun]:anti-cancer treatments
• [count noun] a session of beauty or health care:they now offer the latest in beauty and body treatments

3the use of a chemical, physical, or biological agent to preserve or give particular properties to something:the treatment of hazardous waste is particularly expensive

 

innumerable

Pronunciation: /ɪˈnjuːm(ə)rəb(ə)l/

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Definition of innumerable

adjective

• too many to be counted (often used hyperbolically):innumerable flags of all colours

Derivatives

innumerability

Pronunciation: /-ˈbɪlɪti/

noun

innumerably

adverb

Origin:

Middle English: from Latin innumerabilis, from in- 'not' + numerabilis (see numerable)