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...relation to your report "Let's Play Doctor" [MANAGED CARE 1998, July 13], I write to clarify my position on the Patient Protection Act that has just passed the House of Representatives. I have consistently supported legal accountability of federally governed health plans, along with choice and standards of care. The Patient Protection Act accomplishes these goals. While it does not go as far as I would like in allowing patients to sue HMOs for damages, this bill ought to be passed into law this session. I therefore support the Patient Protection Act and will continue to push for full...
...course, final results in plastic surgery are not absolutely predictable. My father often spoke of a doctor cousin who, having decided to try his hand at beautifying noses, did a few teenagers successfully and then, after unwrapping the bandages of an older patient, watched in horror as the tip of the gorgeous new sniffer slowly began to droop toward the patient's chin...
...wait until after the operation before claiming their 15 minutes of fame. Not anymore. In Louisville last week a team of doctors announced their intention to perform "the world's first successful hand transplant"--using a limb from a fresh cadaver--before lifting a scalpel or even picking a patient...
...would the transplant take? "Based on what we know of their animal research," he says, "I'd say they're premature." Dr. Andrew Palmer, president of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, characterized the announcement as "driven as much by marketing as by betterment of the patient...
Even so, it may take months to find a suitable patient (18 to 65 years old) and donor. For the recipient the benefits must clearly outweigh the heavy risks; he or she must be willing to accept the likelihood of limited function and feeling in the new limb, a lifetime of medication, the ever present threat of infection and, finally, what San Francisco neurologist and hand therapist Dr. Frank R. Wilson calls the heavy psychological burden of being reminded daily that "an important part of your anatomy is not your own." It won't be an easy decision for patient...