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Even if unions are deemed legal, many doctors question whether organizing is necessary--or ethical. "We're in a group that makes in the top 1% in income, and I'm not sure we need that kind of protection," argues Fred Campbell, a San Antonio, Texas, internist. Even more troubling is the image of doctors jeopardizing their patients by going on strike. On those grounds, Albert Yellin, a Los Angeles vascular surgeon, opposed the unionization last month of 800 Los Angeles County physicians. "Using our patients as hostages to gain things within our own self-interest is anathema...
...Some 400 have joined Bradley's New Hampshire campaign, and his events around the state draw full houses, though it's too early to tell the curious from the committed. He's performing well on the stump; after his thoughtful speech at the state party convention in Manchester, an internist named Dick Tartow, 67, who had volunteered for Gore just two weeks before, yanked off his GORE 2000 button and replaced it with one that said BRADLEY FOR PRESIDENT. And at the doughnut shop, state representative Amy Robb-Theroux, 34, is also having second thoughts about working for Gore. "People...
Consider my experience with America's Doctor Online, which was launched last month on AOL. The service (keyword: amdoc) provides free access to a real-time electronic chat with one of about 40 M.D.s 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The brainchild of Dr. Scott Rifkin, an internist who practices in Owings Mills, Md., America's Doctor Online offers a small library of medical information. For more complete resources, check out the American Heart Association www.amhrt.org or the Mayo Clinic www.mayohealth.org...
...have hypothyroidism, a drug called thyroxine can boost your hormone levels. Dr. Mark Helfand, an internist at the Veterans Medical Center in Portland, Ore., and a co-author of the new guidelines, says those who take the drug will "need it the rest of their life, and should be monitored every six months or so to make sure they don't get too much...
...suppose I'm a healthier role model than, say, Slash of Guns N' Roses," concedes the practicing internist of his idol status among the scores of adolescents and young adults comforted by his gently informative, utterly genuine approach. But what motivates him is his ability to reach a population in desperate need of information--a skill he first discovered 15 years ago as a medical student in California. When two disc-jockey acquaintances were starting a new show on relationships, they asked him to be the medical consultant. Pinsky, now a happily married parent of triplets, had sensed that young...