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...patients' bill of rights making the rounds in Congress, the company has been caught in an angry offensive against the managed-care industry. "They deny a substantial amount of necessary care and then, to wear you down, make you play the paperwork game," says Dr. Joy Maxey, an Atlanta pediatrician and president of the Medical Association of Georgia, which has filed a suit against Aetna for violating the state's prompt-pay law. (Aetna denies the charges and says other suits are the political attacks of trial lawyers...
...political question is which side will claim the most swing voters--that is, the most women whose votes are available to candidates of either party. Nancy Inhofe, a Tulsa, Okla., emergency-room pediatrician and mother of two, was reared as a conservative Republican and is a daughter-in-law of Oklahoma's Republican Senator James Inhofe. But Nancy, a local coordinator for the Million Mom March, describes herself as an independent voter and says the march defies political distinctions. "It doesn't matter what side you're on politically," she says. "Personal experience has prompted me and people like...
...show Americans two to one in favor of returning Elian to his father and the public growing weary of seeing a little boy showcased by relatives desperate to make their case in the court of 24-hour TV, the Justice Department Tuesday released a letter by its consultant pediatrician in the case warning that there was no justification for further delaying Elian's removal from a home described as "psychologically abusive." Dr. Irwin Redlener wrote that "Elian Gonzalez is now in a state of imminent danger to his physical and emotional well-being," and urging that immediate removal from...
...GIRL? Mothers who conceive in warmer countries are more likely to have boys, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Victor Grech, a pediatrician in Malta, surveyed 17 countries' birth statistics. After separating them into three climatic bands, he determined that the coldest group had the lowest rate of male births and the hottest group had a consistently high proportion of baby boys. Researchers are still examining the results to figure out why heat affects gender...
...importance of thinking beyond the child was highlighted for me by a pediatrician. I expected this doctor from the old city hospital to advocate passionately for children's health as a singularly critical issue. Instead, he challenged volunteers and other pediatricians to redefine the child-versus-adult dichotomy that I, and I think many others, unconsciously form when we attempt to decide which individuals are deserving of our time and money...