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HOSPITALIZED. MICKEY MANTLE, 63, Baseball Hall of Famer, this time for anemia caused by chemotherapy; in Dallas. Barely two months after undergoing a liver transplant, Mantle revealed he had begun treatment for cancer that had spread from his diseased liver to his lung (had the cancer been detected earlier, the donor liver would have gone to someone else...
...health-maintenance organizations (HMOS) and managed-care networks. Teaching hospitals traditionally have charged heavy fees for fairly routine procedures to cover the high costs of training and research. Cost-conscious hmos and insurance networks frequently refuse to pay those prices. Since the teaching hospitals cannot survive by performing liver transplants and brain surgery alone but also need the high-volume work of delivering babies and taking out appendixes, they find themselves slashing fees to compete with community hospitals...
...merged institution is cutting costs by, among other things, consolidating operations: for example, Brigham sends all liver-transplant patients to Massachusetts General. The total number of beds has been reduced from 1,700 to 1,514, and Samuel Thier, president of Massachusetts General, hopes to get that number down to 1,000. A first-year saving of $47 million out of a total combined budget of $1.1 billion seems to confirm what critics of the old teaching-hospital model, such as Alan Sager, professor at Boston University's School of Public Health, have long maintained: these blue-chip institutions...
...pale and gaunt Mickey Mantle made his first public appearance today since a liver transplant a month ago, with this warning for kids: "You talk about a role model, this is a role model: Don't be like me." The Yankee great, whose 40 years of hard drinking helped destroy his health, has dropped 40 pounds, and has a 60 percent chance of living five more years. "God gave me the ability to play baseball and I wasted it," he said. "I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to make up. I want to start giving...
UNDER TREATMENT. MICKEY MANTLE, 63, baseball legend; for "light rejection" of his recently acquired liver transplant; in Dallas. Doctors put the beloved former Yankee on steroids and say his prognosis is still good...