Word: doctorings
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...best hospitals. In one New Jersey hospital, for example, there were two thoracic surgeons who did a number of bypass operations. One screened his patients carefully, rejecting smokers, overweight people and other risks; the second accepted sicker patients, including several whom the first had rejected. The second doctor's patients had to stay in the hospital an average of five days longer, and when that showed up on the hospital's computers, his privileges were withdrawn on the ground that his work cost the hospital more than insurance carriers were willing...
Medicaid. Federal grants to states under this program, which helps the poor pay hospital and doctor bills, totaled $20 billion in fiscal 1984 and are expected to rise to $25 billion in 1986. The Heritage Foundation recommended a number of changes, and Administration officials let on that they are seriously considering at least one: reducing grants to states in which health-care costs are rising especially rapidly, presumably because those states are making inadequate efforts to hold them down...
Earlier there had been a more brutal awakening. While on vacation in Acapulco after college, she met a local doctor who invited her out to dinner after he made some house calls. The last stop, says Allred, was a motel, where the man pulled a gun and raped her. She says she nearly died after a subsequent illegal abortion...
...spring, when Dr. Howard Spiro, 60, a Yale gastroenterologist, first heard of the Eppinger Prize, his reaction was one of horror. He clearly remembered reading about a pioneering Viennese liver specialist named Hans Eppinger who had planned vicious experiments on inmates of Nazi concentration camps. He recalled that the doctor had committed suicide when summoned to the Nuremberg war-crimes tribunal in 1946. Research showed that the award's namesake and the Nazi physician were the same man, and Spiro launched a protest to publicize the truth about Eppinger. Says he: "This is a matter I could...
Spiro and a number of other observers find such justifications hard to accept. "Would they suggest that the world should forget the most criminal period in history?" asks Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, which helped Spiro investigate the Viennese doctor's past...