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Exactly a year ago, my husband and I traveled to Yangzhou to meet our daughter. Her orphanage resembled neither the "showcase" facility that Beijing opened to foreign journalists last week nor the horror institute described by Human Rights Watch/Asia. While the orphanage needed many things--more light, a paint job...
And so for the deMeurerses began a three-year encounter with "managed health care" and the powerful forces that are fast reshaping the culture and practice of medicine in America--not just cutting costs but changing in a fundamental way how doctors view patients, and perhaps how patients should now...
Dr. Gupta, reviewing his notes on the case, says Dr. McMillan agreed Christy was a candidate for a transplant but said she would first have to undergo several cycles of chemotherapy to demonstrate that her tumor would respond to the potent drugs used in bone-marrow therapy. In the deMeurerses...
Dr. McMillan, in a written reply to questions faxed to him by TIME, stated that rules governing patient-doctor confidentiality barred him from discussing specifics of the encounter. He wrote, "At no time, either prior to her visit or following her visit, did I discuss her case with Health Net...
"Patients are in the hospital for much shorter stays, and they are much sicker," said Dr. Daniel C. Tosteson '44, dean of Harvard Medical School. "It's not a good place for the student to encounter his or her first heart attack."