Word: neurologists
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...come true. Studies show that people who take dexfenfluramine shed an average of only 10% of their weight. Doctors also caution that the drug is intended for those who are 20% or more above their recommended weight range. "It's not a magic pill," stresses Dr. Richard Wurtman, a neurologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who helped develop dexfenfluramine. "It must be used as part of a package that includes good nutritional advice and a good exercise program...
...says Dr. Roy B. Jones, a University of Colorado bone-marrow-transplant specialist who saw Christy deMeurers during her journey. "I think physicians are slanting the opinions they give based upon monetary considerations that in many cases they wouldn't have allowed to influence them before." Vincent Riccardi, a neurologist and expert on "Elephant Man" disease, says the issue of trust in California is already moot. He has gone so far as to establish a company, American Medical Consumers, that plans one day to dispatch "personal medical advocates" to negotiate for care on behalf of patients. People must be willing...
...need only know that as a young medical student in Pakistan in the late 1950s he made roughly $10 million selling land along the anticipated rights of way of new highways revealed to him by a patient who happened to be a public-works surveyor. Dr. Hasan, a neurologist, says he was once "rabidly anti-managed care." He built his first HMO to counter a health plan that moved into Pueblo and sapped revenue from the city's specialists. But suddenly he saw opportunity in the new medicine. Over the next few years he created a robust managed-care empire...
...previously criticized? "If you want to treat patients these days," says Himmelstein, "you have to become a part of HMOs." Other physicians have felt these pressures and become similarly, if less vocally, disillusioned with HMO practices. One Los Angeles doctor worked dutifully for three years as a neurologist for CIGNA HealthCare, a large HMO. When she advised the mother of a brain-damaged boy that a muscle biopsy might help diagnose the extent of his condition, she was chided by her bosses for suggesting the test. "I was told it was a mistake to tell the patient about a procedure...
...article published last week in Nature, a team of U.S. and British researchers report that they have pinpointed brain circuits that seem to control the auditory and visual hallucinations of schizophrenia. "We've identified the areas that are responsible for the brain creating its own reality," says neurologist David Silbersweig at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. "This may help us tailor the medications...