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...million annual budget provided by government and private grants, CET last year placed 3,141 graduates in jobs ranging from graphic artists to medical assistants. Among the recent hires was Pauline Flores, 29, a single mother of five who began work for a Silicon Valley pediatrician in May after seven months of medical training (cost: nearly $6,500). Today Flores earns $8.75 an hour answering phones, drawing blood, doing labwork and assisting physician Katherine Wong. "God, it feels good," Flores says of her job. "I wake up in the morning and want to come to work...
What distinguishes Dr. Weil from the snake-oil charlatans is the credibility he has earned by using the best that both traditional and alternative medicine have to offer. As a pediatrician trained more traditionally, I find extreme behavior on both sides--from the scientifically trained M.D. who treats every runny nose with an antibiotic to the naturopathically trained chiropractor who battles against immunization, the best preventive medicine that science has given us. The quality of health care will improve as more middle-ground physicians are trained and enter practice. RONALD S. GRANT, M.D. Tucson, Ariz...
DIED. GERALD GAULL, 66, U.S. pediatrician, whose identification of taurine in mother's milk, an amino acid important for brain development, prompted its inclusion in baby formulas; of an aortic aneurysm; in Quito, Ecuador...
...your employer's managed-care plan. But if you happen to work for one of 24 large corporations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, you could visit a kiosk near your office, punch a button and see a computer screen light up with a sales pitch like this, from pediatrician Leonard Snellman...
...will give me a chance to be a direct provider of clinical care," says David. "I love being a pediatrician because of the opportunity to be with people...