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Dole's supporters have tried to pin the abortionist label on Dr. Roy, an obstetrician who delivered no fewer than 5,000 babies and performed several legal abortions. Roy, who has been active in politics all his career, campaigns largely on his support of public health and environmental issues. Dole has his hands full just trying to wrench himself clear of his party. After President Ford pardoned Nixon and announced his amnesty program, Dole quipped that he had received "about all the help from President Ford that I can stand." Neck and neck...
...publication of the paper, a study of the effect on a fetus of penicillin administered to the pregnant woman. The four defendants were not only charged with carrying off the tissue, but in a separate count with "aiding" the alleged transport. In a related case, Dr. Kenneth Edelin, chief obstetrician at BCH, was charged on the same day with manslaughter, in connection with the "death" of a 24-week-old fetus...
About 15% of all women who want to bear children fail to conceive, many of them because of defects in their fallopian tubes. In England last week there was a flurry of optimism about a successful treatment for some of these would-be mothers. A respected, pioneering obstetrician-gynecologist reported that in three cases a ripe egg cell had been removed from a wife and fertilized in a laboratory by sperm from her husband; then the resulting conceptus had been implanted in the wife's womb and she had given birth to a normal child. The three babies thus...
Crippling Costs. The resulting rise in rates is "a disaster," says Dr. Melville Platt, associate director of professional services at New York Hospital. Most doctors agree. A New York City obstetrician has to shell out $9,433 a year to keep himself adequately covered against lawsuits; a specialist in a high-risk field like neurosurgery must pay $14,329 for protection. Doctors elsewhere face similar hikes. Dr. Suzanne
...extra tests and taking additional X rays, the price of which is reflected on the patient's bill. Physicians generally resent the need to practice such "defensive medicine" but feel that it is absolutely necessary. "We are shivering in our boots," says Dr. John Gregory, a Bronxville, N.Y., obstetrician. "We sometimes find that we face almost every patient more as an adversary than a friend." Gregory and his partners in practice protect themselves by ordering a wide range of tests for every surgical patient over 35; these cost their patients up to $150 and an extra...