Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also declared that Health Net's interference in the doctor-patient relationship fit the legal definition of "extreme and outrageous behavior exceeding all bounds usually tolerated in a civilized society...
...maybe it's just medicine on the far side of the paradigm shift. Says Dr. Ho: "I'm sorry the panel didn't see that Health Net was doing what was best for the patient, which was to deny the treatment as investigational, and which in the end was proven the right decision...
...McMillan, in a written reply to questions faxed to him by TIME, stated that rules governing patient-doctor confidentiality barred him from discussing specifics of the encounter. He wrote, "At no time, either prior to her visit or following her visit, did I discuss her case with Health...
...Popik sees it a bit differently. "What should happen," he says, "is that a physician shouldn't create an expectation for a patient. Because once that expectation is completed, you start a process that is extremely difficult to change." He adds, "There are other ways to give people hope. And that's the paradigm shift...
...Gupta confirms he saw Christy that day but says he does not recall this aspect of their encounter. He did not in fact have the authority to make such referrals, he says; these can only be made by a patient's primary-care physician. Asked why, then, he felt empowered to make the first referral to Dr. McMillan at Scripps, he says, "I knew those people...