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WHAT YOUR DOCTOR CAN'T TELL...
...DOCTOR CAN ALWAYS SELL TO A DESPERate patient a procedure that offers scant hope and costs a great deal. In the future, though, we must sell not merely hope, but results. Fortunately, not all HMOs are using the patient's money to support administrators as you described. ROLF NESSE, M.D. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho...
HMOS HAVE BEEN BOTH GOOD AND BAD for health care in the U.S. We have learned about waste and limited resources, and that more is not always better. But HMOs erode the doctor-patient relationship. Society wants physicians to control costs. It also wants them to be advocates for health. Most doctors want to be on the side of the patient. However, third-party payers (not just HMOs) can be intimidating. Money is powerful. But most doctors do their best for the patient, or at least what seems to be the best. DAVID S. SMITH, M.D. Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
...inhibitors, which block production of a key enzyme, protease, that the virus needs to replicate itself. It was only last December that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first protease inhibitor, Hoffmann-La Roche's saquinavir. Ritonavir and indinavir could get the FDA go-ahead--and reach doctor's offices--as early as this summer. "The data are as good as anything I've seen," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading AIDS expert at the National Institutes of Health...
This is the stage at which most people discover they are HIV-positive, thanks to an antibody test developed in 1984. Raul, 25, of East Los Angeles, learned he had the AIDS virus two months ago, after a sore throat sent him to a doctor. Like so many others who discover that they are HIV-positive at the earliest stages, Raul found it hard to believe he could have a life-threatening disease and still feel so healthy. "I've thought about it, but I just can't picture it happening to me," he says. "I think I'll probably...