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Last October the arbitration panel hearing Christy's case determined that Health Net should indeed have paid for the transplant. It also found the company had crossed the line in interfering with the doctor-patient relationship, specifically when Health Net officials phoned Christy's local oncologist and UCLA's Slamon. The latter call "was more heavy-handed" than either man was willing to admit, the panel concluded, and had been made to "influence or intimidate" UCLA and its doctors. Two of the three panelists further saw this interference as constituting "intentional infliction of emotional distress" on the deMeurerses because...
...Christy underwent a bone scan, which showed her cancer had spread; her disease was now classified as Stage IV metastatic breast cancer. Given the standard therapies available, it was a death sentence, but her oncologist, Dr. Mahesh Gupta, warmly assured her there was hope. He recommended she consider a bone-marrow transplant and, in a breach of Health Net procedure, skipped the usual channels for making referrals and arranged a consultation with a physician he knew, Dr. Robert McMillan, an oncologist at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla. Christy's sister, living in Colorado, had urged...
Christy petitioned her medical group, Rancho Canyon, for a different oncologist. By now the deMeurerses had decided to get the treatment any way they could. They made plans to begin raising money through appeals to friends and the public. "As grateful as we were," Alan says, "it was absolutely humiliating to have...
...found Huggins and an associate liable in a negligence suit brought by a woman who came in to have her fillings removed and ended up having five teeth extracted. Another lawsuit alleges that the Huggins Center hastened the death of an elderly couple; the wife stopped going to her oncologist for cancer treatments after going to the center. At a hearing that began last week, the Colorado attorney general's office charged that Huggins used fraud and "pseudo science" to frighten patients into undergoing treatment. If the judge finds against Huggins, he might lose his license...
...medical practice didn't start to attract public scrutiny until off-label prescribing became the treatment of choice for people suffering from AIDS or advanced cancers. "When it comes to treating cancer, things are much more liberal than in other areas of medicine," says Dr. Thierry Jahan, an oncologist at the University of California at San Francisco. "There's an element of desperation. So you try a lot of combinations of drugs that are already on the market while waiting for new drugs to become available...