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...have found them toxic to their employment prospects. And many patient-clients are questioning the candor of their medical guidance. They are for-profit health-management organizations (HMOs). The aggravating agent is a clause in many HMO contracts, variously described by critics as a "loyalty oath" and a "gag rule," that forbids doctors to reveal certain sorts of information, including treatment options, to anyone, including their patients. The A.M.A. House of Delegates has ruled that such restrictions "are not in the best interests of patients and physicians...
...tobacco companies. Former Brown & Williamson research chief Jeffrey Wigand, the industry's highest-level whistle-blower to date, began giving depositions to lawyers for the state of Mississippi, which is suing the industry to recoup the public-health costs it attributes to smoking. Though Brown & Williamson obtained a gag order on Wigand from the courts in Kentucky, where the firm is based, a Mississippi judge refused to honor the ruling...
...Citizens of the Tower of London are at best satisfactory. Though their swinging and swaying could have been sharper and better choreographed, they looked incredibly happy doing it. The grim faced quartet of Yeomen, looking a bit ridiculous in their putty, bright red uniforms, function more as a sight gag than a meaningful musical contribution to the show...
Today's sit-in, which is not sanctioned by PBHA, will be held to protest Lewis' choice last month of Judith H. Kidd as assistant dean of public service. The protesters, who will gag themselves and tie their hands, said that Lewis choice of Kidd ignored student input...
...ROTHSTEIN (ROBERT DE NIRO) favors sports jackets in blinding solids--sometimes in the primary hues, sometimes in less-than-subtle pastels. These he color-coordinates with silky haberdashery and alligator loafers dyed to match. But underneath his sight-gag plumage lives a gray, watchful, calculating spirit. He's a professional gambler, always looking for an edge. Or, once the Mob makes him manager of a Las Vegas casino in the 1970s, the preternaturally alert defender of its edge over the assembled suckers...