Word: oncologists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...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...
Breast-cancer specialist Dr. Susan Love shares her skepticism: "Many gynecologists are handing out these hormones like M&M's," she says. No matter how beneficial estrogen may seem, no drug treatment comes without drawbacks. In biology as in business, notes the Los Angeles oncologist, "there's no free lunch...
...Develop your local he advised students considering academic medicine. "If you are an oncologist you most try to be a very good oncologist, but at the same time, do not allow your thoughts to bury themselves in your disciplines. You must understand the organization that...