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...restriction on care. "It's not difficult to be sympathetic to that impulse," says TIME medical writer Christine Gorman. "Often, doctors are faced with a judgment call: If a patient is going to be sent home to an empty house, with no one to take care of them, a physician may very well feel justified keeping the patient for one more night." And in fact, says Gorman, even doctors who admit to thumbing their noses at HMO guidelines may not be committing fraud in the strictest sense of the word. "There may be situations in which if a doctor...
DIED. ALEX COMFORT, 80, British physician, pacifist and author of the lively 1972 gourmet's guide to the sexual revolution, The Joy of Sex; in Banbury, England (see Eulogy below...
...does not provide ongoing medical care. Instead, it is a "gateway to get kids from the streets to a primary care physician," Melchiono says...
Mark S. Seigel, a local physician, came to watch the demonstration...
Even after formal retirement at age 65, he became a senior physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and then worked...