Word: demeurerses
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...Slamon. The latter call "was more heavy-handed" than either man was willing to admit, the panel concluded, and had been made to "influence or intimidate" UCLA and its doctors. Two of the three panelists further saw this interference as constituting "intentional infliction of emotional distress" on the deMeurerses because it triggered Glaspy's second declaration opposing Christy's injunction. The panel awarded Alan deMeurers $1.02 million...
"I think this system is robbing physicians of their essential goodness," says Dr. Roy B. Jones, a University of Colorado bone-marrow-transplant specialist who saw Christy deMeurers during her journey. "I think physicians are slanting the opinions they give based upon monetary considerations that in many cases they wouldn...
The matter of trust becomes especially vital for patients such as Christy deMeurers, unlucky enough to find themselves traveling the netherworld of extreme illness, where hope and trust may be all a doctor has to offer. When they're missing, "you feel just strangled," says Christy's mother, Joyce Nesmith...
Alan deMeurers became a Health Net subscriber in February 1989, when he began teaching kindergarten in Lake Elsinore, California, southeast of Los Angeles. Christy, formerly a K Mart manager, also became a teacher there in July 1992 and also chose Health Net, the least expensive of three options. They paid...
At first things moved quickly for Christine deMeurers. She endured a radical mastectomy, radiation therapy and a round of chemotherapy that ended in March 1993, the month Health Net proposed five new billboards, including one that showed a young mother holding her child, with the slogan WHEN YOU'VE GOT...