There is yet another advantage: what the relative value scale would do for the nation's health care bill.

An additional year's study led to today's call for the relative value scale.

"The commission has not yet endorsed any specific method for developing a relative value scale," the report said.

Under the commission proposal, the relative value scale would be modified by geographic considerations.

The study's authors, however, think that the relative value scale will have a salutary effect on physician payments.

Under the current system, those doctors receive only 18 percent of what they would receive under the relative value scale.

The relative value scale has been endorsed by the American Medical Association.

The octospider society places information at the top of the value scale.

The motivation behind their update was to make the value scale more relevant to today; they believed that the writing was too dated.

Nor the Commander, that I saw, though we eventually suffered worse on an adult value scale.