Word: neurologists
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...levels of basic care. Instead, Americans face a glut of specialists who tend to charge more per visit. Specialists claim greater expertise and more experience. But they bypass a critical--yet less expensive--step in the health care process. It's a waste for a patient to visit a neurologist for a head cold checkup. It's a waste for the physician, as well...
Finally, many economists maintain that Clinton appears to be combining contradictory ideas that will cancel each other out. Paul Ellwood, a pediatric neurologist and health-policy expert who helped develop the managed-care idea, insists that his model cannot work in conjunction with price controls. Says he: "That would be like Yeltsin saying, 'We're going to introduce market forces here in Russia, but we're going to start out with the government setting the prices.' Price controls are not compatible with price competition." In Ellwood's system, costs would be controlled by competition among health-care suppliers to serve...
...YEARS AUDIENCES HAVE CRIED AT THE SIGHT OF the undersized lad bearing a single crutch who rides atop his father's shoulder. But Charles Dickens never revealed just what is wrong with Tiny Tim Cratchit, whose life is in chronic peril each Christmas. American pediatric neurologist Donald Lewis apparently couldn't take it anymore. After examining the literature, literally, on Tim, Dr. Lewis has come up with a professional diagnosis: distal renal tubular acidosis. According to A Christmas Carol, Tiny Tim lives to enjoy Christmases Yet to Come, thanks to a reformed Scrooge and his trio of conscience-raising phantoms...
ANATOLI BERESLOV Neurologist The young boy's weary eyes light up the moment Anatoli Bereslov, director of Moscow's first cerebral palsy rehabilitation center, approaches the teenager's bed. "You look well, my young one," he says. The compliment motivates the boy to sit up, despite his pain. Bereslov, a former professor of neurology, has inspired many such acts of courage since he became director of the center, opened 21 months ago. His respect for his patients and unpretentious attitude are the best therapy. Doctors with such convictions are rare in Russia's crumbling national health system. "When I first...
Critics, and that includes most conventional doctors, say the chief danger of alternative medicine -- aside from wasting money -- is that the patients get so carried away with unconventional cures that they dismiss regular medicine entirely. "The nightmare," says University of Chicago neurologist Clifford Saper, "is seeing someone who has a spinal-cord tumor who's been going to a chiropractor for years instead of to a doctor. You want to throw your hands up and say, 'If only I'd seen him earlier I could have helped him that much more.' " Doctors also warn about the risks of unregulated medicine...