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...their own. Other respected programs are operated by professionals with no tie to Masters and Johnson, though most use some of the techniques devised by the St. Louis experts. For instance, at Forest Hospital, a private psychiatric institution in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines, a psychiatrist and a gynecologist treat patients with a combination of the St. Louis method and psychoanalytic therapy...
Most doctors do not feel put upon by the demands of professional courtesy. Dr. Allen Charles, a Chicago obstetrician and gynecologist, delivers from three to six doctors' wives each month without charge. "I guess I should take it as a personal compliment when a doctor sends his wife to me," he says. Dr. Hugh Miller, a Newton, Mass., internist, feels that caring for colleagues is one of the things that sets doctors apart from others. "If you're a tradesman, then act like one," he says. "If you're a professional, then you should offer professional courtesy...
...avoid these situations, some doctors have begun to insist upon paying for any care provided by a colleague. "I tell them I will pay my own way or I won't come," says Dr. Donald Johnson, a Manhattan gynecologist. "That way I don't have to send a bottle of booze or something." Others are taking out policies to cover doctors' bills and demanding that those who treat them accept at least whatever the insurance companies allow. But their rebellion is not likely to spread very far. The majority of doctors seem more than willing to abide...
Frenchmen have also been stirred by the jailing in Belgium of respected Gynecologist Willy Peers for performing 300 abortions in his Namur clinic. The Belgians are even more aroused. A Peers defense committee has collected 200,000 signatures defending the "lay saint," as he is called, and 1,000 Belgians, including 300 doctors, have admitted that they have arranged, performed or undergone abortions...
...think of nothing I'd like less than having other females, with no medical experience, practice do-it-yourself gynecology on me. What happens after their diagnosis and treatment are wrong? I suppose they will refer the patient to a licensed gynecologist-like my husband-to repair the damage. (MRS.) PATRICIA JARVAIS GEARY Middletown...