Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Matter-of-factly the doctor says...
...states with no legal control is understandably bad, but the resident of well-regulated California or New York is not necessarily safe either. Dr. Howard L. Bodily of the California State Department of Public Health pointed out that there is no federal law to prevent a doctor's signing up with a cut-rate laboratory thousands of miles away from his consulting room and sending his specimens by mail-regardless of the fact that delay may make many of them useless. Some mail-order laboratories have been caught sending out test "results" on specimens that they had never examined...
Just as matter-of-factly the patient imagines that his blood or urine sample will go to a laboratory filled with shiny, sterile stainless steel and glassware, to be worked over by skilled technicians in white coats. He has no doubt about the accuracy of the results, because his doctor shows none. That blind faith is unjustified, a succession of medical experts told the Senate antitrust subcommittee last week. In fact, Dr. David...
...destroying anemia. Indeed, of 328 blood-disorder deaths in the newborn studied in California, 34.5% were associated with laboratory errors, and many could have been prevented. - A newspaperman, 26, was being treated with anticoagulants for phlebitis. A laboratory reported that his blood had a normal clotting time, so the doctor kept up the treatment. The man's blood was actually slow to clot; he died of an internal hemorrhage...
Once in business, the lab can solicit doctors with profitable come-ons. It may offer "all the tests your patients require" for a flat fee of $75 a month-and subtly encourage the doctor who orders 100 tests a month to bill his patients for tests at $3 to $10 each. At whatever price, a test is worse than useless and may have fatal results unless the technicians know how to run it and have the right equipment. On this score also, Dr. Sencer had bad news. More than 20% of test materials examined by the NCDC were found faulty...