Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brown was the doctor and his patient, the Kansas basketball team, has been left in critical condition after an almost-fatal ordeal with the NCAA. He is guilty of malpractice...
...Lloyd] Bentsen were running, he'd get my vote. But since he's not, I'm voting for Bush," a doctor friend of mine told me recently. He wouldn't listen to the argument that voting for Dukakis was the next best thing. Nothing has alarmed him--and, I'm told, doctors across the country--more than the prospect of Dukakis doing for the country what he has done in Massachusetts...
...tough call to make, but many watchers of Massachusetts medicine claim that the quality of medical care here has been in decline for some time. No self-respecting doctor, I'm told frequently, would choose to practice medicine in a state that some feel has declared war on doctors...
...what has Dukakis done to alienate so many doctors? Well for starters, Massachusetts is the only state where a doctor must agree to balanced billing when he receives his license--that is, when treating Medicare patients he is not allowed to charge above what Medicare will pay, even if the patient can afford...
...should not be an issue that sways votes, and it is unfortunate that the small doctor population in this country will be blind to the merits of the Democratic ticket this year. But if doctors are Dukakis' enemies, then he has earned them...