Word: breasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nearly anybody who has come into contact with the system can recite a litany of horror stories: nitpicking "utilization reviews" of doctors' bills by insurance-company bureaucrats; patients hustled out of a hospital within hours, even after surgery as traumatic as breast removal; gag orders forbidding doctors to tell a patient about an expensive treatment. A recent addition: a patient rushes to an emergency room with what feels like a heart attack but turns out to be only gas pains--and gets zapped with a huge bill because his HMO will reimburse only for a "real" emergency...
...take better care of patients. Prying more money out of HMOs for treatment is one way. Another is to insist that HMO contracts let doctors make all the decisions on treatment rather than allowing "M.B.A.s phoning from the back of their limos to cancel bone-marrow transplants for breast-cancer patients," as one medical researcher puts...
...Other physicians--about 7,000 in 23 practice groups--also want your business. Some groups offer 24-hour hot lines and evening clinics for two-worker families. Some also trumpet their expertise in treating particular illnesses. "No. 1 in cardiac care," brags HealthSystem Minnesota--plus "96% early detection of breast cancer...above-average five-year prostate cancer survival rates." Some groups ask for $10 a month, in addition to the $70 payment each patient gets from his or her employer; others demand $20, still others $40 (no deductibles though). You pays your money--along with funds kicked in by such...
According to Willett, recent studies have shown soy milk may contribute to relieving symptoms of premenstrual syndrome and reducing the risks of breast cancer...
...that his organization was retracting its panel's vague January recommendation and replacing it with a far more definitive one. Women between 40 and 49, the NCI announced, should undergo mammography every one to two years. Women at high risk for the disease--those with a family history of breast cancer, say--should consult their doctors about beginning the tests even earlier and undergoing them even more frequently...