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...certain high-risk specialties, the increase was even more staggering. For example, Dr. Paul Muchnic, a Los Angeles orthopedist, found that his premiums had suddenly risen from $6,500 to $36,000 a year. He angrily announced that he was quitting his $65,000-a-year practice. Others have pulled up stakes and moved to other states where there are fewer malpractice suits, smaller judgments and thus more reasonable insurance rates...
...have even been able to woo home scientists who had studied and worked abroad. "What goes on around the world is a war of brains. We have no choice but to plunge into it for our own survival and future prosperity," says Ahn Young Ok, 43. A $16,000-a-year DuPont engineer in Delaware, Ahn took a pay cut to return to Seoul, where he is now a top official in the Korean Institute of Science and Technology...
...income. Nor is there any excuse for a $434,000-a-year welfare public relations outfit, which includes a television camera crew and staffers who churn out press releases glorifying the welfare department...
...closing of even a single hospital sparks a bitter political fight. The hospitals not only provide health care but are also a source of jobs, and they are overstaffed with doctors and other employees. Dr. John Holloman, $65,000-a-year director of the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation, has resisted cutbacks; he even quashed a report on possible economies that was prepared by his own staff. A close observer of city affairs notes hyperbolically: "Some of the neighbors, in league with the more radical doctors, will riot, kill and burn to keep the hospital from being closed...
Only 5 candidates are going after the nine $6500-a-year jobs the city biannually offers to its residents, down from...