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...others say that what's exemplary about France's system is that it has managed to foster patient choice while continuing to provide a generally high level of care for even the most vulnerable. All French citizens have affordable access to a doctor, thanks in part to one of the highest rates of doctors per capita in the world (3.4 per 1,000, compared to 2.4 in the U.S. and 2.5 in Britain). A sick French citizen who stays inside the public funding system might not get to choose from a list of specialists, but he or she will...
...regularly eats lunch with College students. But now instead of finishing his math problem sets, he bides his time in the Holyoke Center working as the director of Harvard University Health Services. When Rosenthal first moved into Harvard Yard, he was unsure if he wanted to be a doctor at all. It would take the death of a close friend to convince Rosenthal to pursue a career in medicine. Instead, upon moving into his Thayer Hall residence, Rosenthal imagined himself becoming a teacher after graduation. Sylvester Sterioff, Jr. ’59, Rosenthal’s freshman year roommate?...
...Tiller, one of the few doctors in America willing to perform late-term (or third-trimester) abortions, was a regular usher at his church, which was often the target of antiabortion protests. At about 10 a.m. Sunday, as the doctor was greeting church members at the sanctuary door, a middle-aged white male fired a single, fatal shot with a handgun. Three hours later police took a suspect into custody; they had a tag number on a fleeing powder-blue Ford Taurus registered in Merriam, Kans., a suburb of Kansas City, Mo., and were waiting on Interstate 35 near Kansas...
...Tiller found his life cause, according to a source close to his clinic, when the Wichita native's father was killed in a plane crash. He discovered that his father, also a doctor, had provided abortions. At the urging of his father's patients, the source said, Tiller let his general practice evolve into one focused on abortions. Many, if not most, providers stop performing abortions around 20 weeks; Tiller would extend past 24 weeks "in extreme cases of risks to the woman's life," the source said. "These patients were not simply women who waited too long to decide...
...doctor's foes had a different view. In one story widely recounted by antiabortion activists, Tiller's clinic allegedly performed an abortion at six months on a young girl forced by her parents to undergo the procedure. In the hothouse of Kansas abortion politics, Tiller was perpetually in the spotlight, the target of lawsuits and legislative efforts to crack down on late-term abortions. Former Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius, now Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services, always vetoed such attempts. Republicans in the Senate tried to rattle her confirmation hearings by raising the question of Tiller's campaign...