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...Coronary bypass surgery for a 50-year...
Rand studies have found that in some regions of the country as many as 44% of coronary bypass surgeries and 64% of artery-clearing carotid endarterectomies were either unnecessary or highly questionable. In a separate review for the Philadelphia Professional Standards Review Organization, Dr. Allan Greenspan found that about 25% of heart-pacemaker implants performed in the Philadelphia region were inappropriate. Many doctors challenge such findings, arguing that it is better to err on the safe side...
...guidelines, rather than rules that might impinge upon a doctor's best sense of what a patient needs. "Judgment is an important factor in medicine," says Dr. Robert Heyssel, president of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. "Doctors disagree all the time about whether a carotid endarterectomy or a coronary bypass will offer a patient the best shot at recovery. There are no absolutes around these things...
...bills also provide for an application bypass for low-income students, a simplified definition of independent students and the removal of home, farm and small business equity from financial aid considerations...
Newly appointed police commissioner Perry L. Anderson received permission from the state yesterday to bypass some civil service exam requirements when he appoints six superintendents and deputy superintendents to help him run the department...