Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cruz's work study earnings at Harvardcontributed not only to his school expenses, butalso to his family. His freshman year, he held twojobs so that he could help his family financially."My mother needed $150 to see the eye doctor and Ionce sent my 17-year-old sister money so she wouldnot be evicted from her apartment," explains Cruz...
...STARTED AROUND Christmas 1979, when Sunny, heiress to the Columbia Gas and Electric fortune, fell into a coma. According to Schrallhammer's account, von Bulow ignored Sunny's poor condition for several hours until Schrallhammer convinced him to call a doctor. Some quick action by the doctor saved Sunny, and life went on as usual...
Cardiologist Felix Balasco was the pacemaker king of Rhode Island. In the 1970s he implanted more of the devices than any other doctor in the state--a practice that helped him rake in more than $100,000 a year from Medicare patients alone. Balasco's penchant for pacemakers was well known to colleagues, his hospital and insurers. A peer review five years ago confirmed that dozens of his implants were unnecessary and had put patients in needless danger. But not until this year, when he was convicted for taking kickbacks from pacemaker manufacturers, did the medical board attempt to slow...
...major turnaround, state licensing boards are seizing the initiative and clamping down. Several have received new authority and beefier budgets. In Pennsylvania, for example, the board has been given emergency powers to suspend temporarily the license of any doctor who appears to pose a clear danger to the public; such a decision may even be made in a telephone conference call among board members. The board is now required to investigate every complaint and has been given the staff and money to do so. The result: disciplinary actions in the state rose from .7 per 1,000 doctors...
...level by the Federation of State Medical Boards, a Fort Worth-based organization that acts as a clearinghouse for the individual state licensing boards. Under the leadership of Executive Vice President Bryant Galusha, the federation has done away with its ancient collection of dog-eared file cards on problem doctors and replaced it with a computerized data bank. It has persuaded the state boards to report new disciplinary actions swiftly, so that the information can be promptly entered into the system. This summer individual boards will begin hooking into the system, enabling them to check a doctor's record...