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Recently, the British Interior Ministry deemed Pinochet unfit to stand trial, citing numerous health ailments. Claiming patient confidentiality, the Ministry has refused to release the medical records to Belgium and human rights groups who have brought a suit against Pinochet for the torture he ordered during his dictatorship. While putting a sick man on trial is a breach of justice, allowing a second opinion on the diagnosis is only fair...
...Avenue infertility expert and a best-selling author with a high-wattage clientele. He hobnobs with socialites and celebrities--many of whom swear they would be childless but for his treatment. And he has been dubbed the "dyno gyno" by no less than Geraldo Rivera, whose wife was a patient. But last week Lauersen could be found in a distinctly unglamorous locale: Manhattan federal court, where he faces more than a decade of prison time...
...government is not about to start second-guessing every internist who insists a cough sounded nasty. But Lauersen, 60, seems to present an extreme case. Prosecutors say he sent out falsified bills and created fictitious office notes, some prepared long after patient visits and then backdated. And the dollar amounts he is accused of defrauding are large: $4 million over the past 10 years...
...backers feared that Sharpton would stir up the blacks in Albany. But blacks in Albany did not need Sharpton to stir them up, because their city has its own ugly history of tension between blacks and cops. In 1984 Albany police shot and killed Jesse Davis, a deranged mental patient, after he supposedly attacked them with a knife and a carving fork. A grand jury ruled that the shooting was justified. Nine years later, Lewis Oliver, a lawyer who had filed a wrongful-death suit on behalf of Davis' relatives, discovered a photograph taken by a police officer moments after...
...very successful, but they can't see that they are successful," says Dr. Smith. "These women have a very poor view of themselves physically and emotionally." The key to treatment and prevention, experts agree, is isolating the triggers in each anorexic, addressing those problems - and, eventually, simply hoping the patient is strong enough to survive...