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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone knew how to get the best medical treatment, it was Betsy Lehman. A health columnist who had worked at the Boston Globe since 1982, she had covered everything from leading-edge research to the finer points of a physician's bedside manner. When she learned she had an advanced case of breast cancer, she carefully studied her options and chose to undergo an experimental treatment offered at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a prestigious hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School. Tragically, the 39-year-old mother of two died in December. But as a front-page story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DISTURBING CASE OF THE CURE THAT KILLED THE PATIENT | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...Lehman's case is just one of a spate of medical foul-ups that have made headlines in recent weeks. In two Florida incidents, a doctor amputated the wrong foot of a diabetic man, and a hospital worker mistakenly turned off a stroke victim's breathing machine. In Michigan a surgeon doing a mastectomy removed a woman's healthy breast instead of the diseased one. Are these isolated, if horrifying, events? Or could they be harbingers of a deadly trend? Though no statistical evidence shows that malpractice is on the rise, state licensing boards have stepped up their investigations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DISTURBING CASE OF THE CURE THAT KILLED THE PATIENT | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...recognition of the gift, 17 Quincy Street--the official home of University Presidents until 1971 and the present offices of the University's governing boards--will be renamed the John Langeloth and Frances Lehman Loeb House...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Loeb Family Pledges $75 Million to University | 3/15/1995 | See Source »

...currency float. Now Zedillo is taking the politically risky steps of slashing government spending and jacking up interest rates to slow the economy and wean it from its dependence on ``hot money''--foreign investments in securities that can easily be dumped. Says Allen Sinai, the chief economist for Lehman Bros.: ``Mexico must swallow a recession. If the government can hang in there and people can live through a year of austerity, the economy will be on its way. But it's going to be a real test of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DON'T PANIC: HERE COMES BAILOUT BILL | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...Adele Lehman Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Bernard N. Fields, a leading virologist who helped direct the nation's AIDS research program, died of pancreatic cancer at his home in West Newton on Tuesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Community Briefs | 2/3/1995 | See Source »

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