Word: patients
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...tape recording of the meeting shows the extent to which business and medicine have become entangled in California, and raises the question, When does a patient's insurer determine the range of options a patient is allowed to consider? The question was asked directly by one of Dr. Glaspy's colleagues, Dr. Peter Rosen. "I guess I'm not quite understanding something," he said, as the meeting gained heat. "If you know someone's a Health Net patient, do you talk to them differently than if they're somebody else...
...talk at the meeting quickly turned to the matter of patient deception. "The biggest problem," Glaspy told the Health Net officials present, "is when they come to a center and they don't come with a pre-call from you, so we don't know who they are, and we don't know they're from Health Net." Alluding to Christine deMeurers, he said, "We had one of those where that was the problem...
...second declaration stunned the deMeurerses, who saw it as one more violation of the doctor-patient relationship. "It felt like the same thing we had gone through with Dr. Gupta," Alan says. Suddenly he and his wife believed they had a new worry: Would UCLA really come through on its offer? And would the care be as good as if someone else were paying? "Our first inclination after we heard about Dr. Glaspy was, maybe we ought to go back to Denver," Alan says...
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...
Still, nothing could have prepared him for his latest, and possibly greatest, fight. It took more than a year and some intense lobbying for Getty to win the right to become the first AIDS patient to receive a baboon bone-marrow transplant. He overcame the last bureaucratic hurdle in August, when the Food and Drug Administration agreed to allow Getty, and Getty alone, to undergo the procedure. Then in the fall, he developed potentially fatal pneumocystis pneumonia, which postponed the transplant until December...