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...Shuwarger, a Houston obstetrician, used to work six days a week, seeing about 40 patients a day. But on Jan. 1 he lost 2,100 of his 3,000 regular patients when their employers, seven aerospace companies, joined managed-care networks. When he tried to follow most of his patients into the five plans, he was told they had enough obstetricians and did not need him. Of course, his former patients can continue seeing him if they pay higher deductibles, but very few are doing so. "It's almost enough to make a guy paranoid," he says. "The impression...
...Warrior Marks is a portrayal by an outsider," says Dr. Nahid Toubia, a Sudanese-born obstetrician in New York City. "It suggests, 'I, Alice Walker, save the beautiful children who are being tortured by their own people.' It's like saying Harlem women give their children AIDS because they don't love them. In reality it's more complex." Adds Mohamud: "You can't threaten or dictate to people on this issue. It's not going to stop overnight...
...Kenneth Ryan, a Harvard Medical Schoolfaculty member and obstetrician at Brigham andWomen's Hospital, also attended the hearings. Ryanwas present in his capacity as a medical ethicistand not as a Harvard delegate, Corlette said...
Emery and Gobea also agreed to have their son be part of the experiments. Immediately after Andrew was born, the obstetrician snipped his cord and drew out the umbilical blood. She rushed it to Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles, where a team led by Drs. Donald Kohn and Kenneth Weinberg separated the stem cells and endowed them with normal ADA genes. Then the newly equipped stem cells were injected into the baby's bloodstream. Two days later, Wara went through the procedure on Zachary Riggins in San Francisco, after his stem cells had been shuttled to Kohn and Weinberg...
...their babies on Friday and returned to work on Monday for fear their standing at work would be jeopardized. One lawyer who took four months off was greeted upon her return with a monthly billing report highlighting a $40,000 loss in income because of her absence. An obstetrician said she was asked to be assistant chief of her hospital department, but the offer was withdrawn when she announced she was pregnant...