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Look behind today's headlines about physician-assisted suicide and the right to die, and you'll find that what people are really talking about is the management of pain. Or rather, the mismanagement of pain. For the more neurologists learn about pain--what it is and how it is experienced--the more they are convinced that the key to pain relief is already at hand. Most kinds of severe pain, these scientists say, could be treated safely and effectively if doctors would only make more liberal use of narcotic drugs, particularly morphine...
According to Mase, the majority of physicians at SPH are foreigners. He says, in fact, that as an "American physician," he is in the minority...
...last member of the panel was Dr. Rosalind J. Wright, a pulmonary physician at Beth Israel Deacons Medical Center and a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society's Committee on Violence...
...Does the HMO have a "no cause" clause allowing it to fire a physician at will...
Cynics may contend that doctors mainly want to protect their incomes by preventing HMOs from lowering capitation (per patient) payments. In California, where HMOs are most dominant, the average earnings of a primary-care physician dropped from...