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LAST year at this time, the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) became the first organization of its kind to call its own state "an undesirable place in which to practice" medicine. And even though the MMS and the American Medical Association are both supposed to remain politically neutral, the hint was there. They blamed Gov. Michael S. Dukakis for the deterioration of health care in Massachusetts...
...fresh guidelines for the Powder River Basin auction, the committee report said, experts in the regional office of Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) in Casper, Wyo., spent 4,000 man-hours trying to determine the fair market "value" for each tract. But, feeling that the figures were not reliable, department officials in Washington rejected them. Barely one month before the sale, Interior came up with its own "entry level" bids, some of which were as much as half the MMS recommendation. The new prices, said an MMS official who worked on the original set of figures, "were...
Earlier this month the MMS officially censured and placed on probation Drs. Benjamin Covino, head of the anaesthesiology department at BWH. Aaron J. Gissen, professor of anaesthesiology, and John A. Wark, a former anaesthesiology staff member at BWH, for writing the recommendations. The censure is the harshest disciplinary action short of expulsion the society can hand down. Although the MMS is not directly involved with issuing licenses, it will inform the state board of their action. However, Dr. William B. Munier, the society's executive vice president, said recently he did not think the letters were a serious enough action...
Tosteson said last night that because Covino's and Gissen letters were sistent with the golden rule policy. it is very understandable that the MMS could find their actions less than totally correct...
...MMS is an independent professional organization has no direct role in issuing doctors licenses and Hussain was never a member...