| Highway speed cameras are commonly used in | | | | across the country sold fast food like |
| Europe, but they are currently used in only two U.S. | | | | McDonald’s and Pizza Hut. Nevertheless, some |
| states. As of October 1, 2009 Maryland will allow | | | | hospitals have not only gotten rid of fast food, they |
| speed cameras in highway work zones and on | | | | have also gotten rid of deep-fat fryers and trans |
| highways within a half-mile radius of schools. In | | | | fats. Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest |
| Arizona, however, there is legislation to have speed | | | | not-for-profit health system, has farmers’ |
| cameras removed from the state’s highways in | | | | markets in the parking lots of 30 of its hospitals. |
| 2010. Although speed cameras have reduced | | | | Although these farmers’ markets are mostly in |
| fatalities, crashes and speeding when used on other | | | | the western states, the concept has spread to |
| types of roadways, the main argument against them | | | | places like Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York |
| is that states want highway speed cameras for | | | | and Vanderbilt Medical Center in Tennessee. Hospitals |
| financial profit. In a perfect world, we all would profit | | | | are going green – leafy green. |
| from our experience and not speed. | | | | Across the country there are summer camps for |
| Although several states have passed legislation to | | | | adults – places where adults can indulge in |
| require drug companies to disclose all gifts or | | | | particular interests or just relax with other grown-up |
| payments to doctors, Vermont’s bill, which | | | | kids at a resort in the Connecticut Berkshire |
| became law July 2009, is the strictest and most | | | | Mountains. Blue Lakes Fine Arts Camp in Michigan |
| transparent yet. The bill does not stop drug | | | | reconnects musicians with music. At Crow Canyon |
| companies from spending millions to influence | | | | Archeological Center in Cortez, Colorado adult |
| physicians’ prescribing practices, but the state of | | | | campers dig for artifacts. Santa Fe Photographic |
| Vermont wants its citizens to know exactly what | | | | Workshops in New Mexico provide week-long camps |
| their doctors have received and from whom. | | | | that are almost picture-perfect; and Second City |
| Freebies to doctors include meals, theater tickets, | | | | Training Center in Chicago, Illinois offers 1 or 2-week |
| trips and compensation for lecturing at conventions. | | | | camps in improvisation and comedy writing. Summer |
| There is a federal bill in the works, but its | | | | camps for adults let the inner child come out and |
| transparency is likely to have several opaque areas. | | | | play. |
| A 2006 study showed that 42% of 234 U.S. hospitals | | | | |