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...AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION is growing feverish about them. A number of physicians who have joined up have found them toxic to their employment prospects. And many patient-clients are questioning the candor of their medical guidance. They are for-profit health-management organizations (HMOs). The aggravating agent is a clause in many HMO contracts, variously described by critics as a "loyalty oath" and a "gag rule," that forbids doctors to reveal certain sorts of information, including treatment options, to anyone, including their patients. The A.M.A. House of Delegates has ruled that such restrictions "are not in the best interests...
...Mexican syndicates smuggle ephedrine, a key ingredient that is tightly controlled in the U.S., across the border. In 1994 authorities busted 419 clandestine labs in California, compared with 272 in all the other states combined. "What Colombia is to cocaine, California is to methamphetamine," says Bill Mitchell, special agent in charge of the DEA's San Francisco office...
...they fear that such calamities will keep happening because the meth epidemic has gone largely ignored. "We've been fighting it really strongly for nearly seven years," says Edward Synicky, a special agent with California's bureau of narcotics enforcement, "but cocaine gets all the publicity because it's glamorous. And law enforcement in general doesn't put the resources into meth that it should...
...Newt's own legal parentage was thus the product of a budget deal. The adults around him were never very respectful of authority or convention. He shared a room until he was nine with a free-spirited grandmother, who had a romance late in life with a mysterious government agent and taught Newt to read and write before he even started school. With an IQ of 124 by third grade, he did well only in the subjects that interested...
...terminally ill plays a conscious role in the care-giving process. However, given the fact that there are so many dollars at stake and that the Establishment must have funds to continue all aspects of the practice of medicine, I often wonder if there is a subconscious "agent" at work. The study done by the Journal of the American Medical Association does nothing to allay my fears in this regard. TOM MARTIN La Grange, Illinois...