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...care-giving responsibilities extend beyond her infant and her mother. Matt, the baby's father and an internist at a Boston HMO, has two young sons from his first marriage, which has recently ended in divorce. Kate was not the cause of their parents' breakup, but the boys treat her with suspicion and sometimes open hostility. And then there is Matt himself, who had been her lover for only eight months when Kate became pregnant and saddled with responsibilities. They plan to marry in the June following their son's birth, but Kate occasionally wonders whether he will still want...
Until then, women and their physicians will have to make do with the limited information they have. "When you take hormones," says Dr. Dorothy Gohdes, an internist in Albuquerque, N.M., "you have to remember that you don't get them for nothing. There are trade-offs." A woman whose family history places her at high risk for breast cancer might decide to avoid hormone therapy even for the short term, for example, while a woman at high risk for osteoporosis or heart disease would probably be more willing to take her chances...
...government is not about to start second-guessing every internist who insists a cough sounded nasty. But Lauersen, 60, seems to present an extreme case. Prosecutors say he sent out falsified bills and created fictitious office notes, some prepared long after patient visits and then backdated. And the dollar amounts he is accused of defrauding are large: $4 million over the past 10 years...
Representative Thomas Bliley might want to hold off on that annual checkup for a couple of months - or at least until his internist calms down over the Virginia Republican's newest proposal. Bliley wants to reopen debate on the confidentiality of the National Practitioner Data Bank, which houses discipline reports on the country's doctors. Bliley says he wants to inform consumers about doctors with questionable records - ranging from sexual assault to failure to correctly fill out a license renewal form - by passing legislation that would require the information to be made available to the general public. At present...
Wayburn--who also practiced medicine as an internist and clinical professor--served as five-time president of the Sierra Club, a national environmental advocacy organization of which he is currently honorary president...