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Ellen Zane, who heads Partners Community Healthcare, Inc., the network arm, aims to increase that number to 850 in about five years -- though she faces intense competition from two other networks that are also signing up doctors at a frenzied pace. At times the competition gets bizarre: the 20-physician Concord Hillside Medical Associates in a Boston suburb was bought out by the Lahey Hitchcock network earlier this month. But Emerson Hospital in Concord, where the Hillside group sends many of its patients, is simultaneously negotiating to join the rival Partners network. "The situation is filled with fault lines...
...hand, many scientists take issue with A.A. dogma. Says physician Stanton Peele, an addiction expert: ''Every major tenet of the disease view of addiction is refuted both by scientific research and by everyday observation.'' Treatment programs in Canada, Britain, Germany and Australia have long distinguished between problem drinkers, who consume too much alcohol but can cut back if they get help, and hard-core alcoholics, whose only hope is a lifetime of sobriety. Even the most avid proponents of abstinence admit that some former alcoholics have successfully navigated the road to moderate drinking...
Henry Foster lost his second and finalchance to become surgeon generalin a 57-43 Senate vote, identical to Wednesday's, that narrowly denied the Tennessee physician the 60 votes he needed to beat a threatened GOP filibuster. SinceSenate Majority Leader Bob Dolehad set a deadline of today to decide the issue, that's the end of the nomination. Democrats and Republicans alike seized on the outcome in a war of words on abortion. "By choosing to side with extremists who would do anything to block a woman's right to choose," said President Clinton, Republican opponents "have done a disservice...
...Henry Foster's chances of becoming the next surgeon generalplummeted when Senate supporters today failed, 57 to 43, to muster the 60 votes needed to block a threatened filibuster and bring his nomination to a vote. The Tennessee physician has the 51 votes he needs for confirmation, but the nomination is foundering under a scenario thatMajority Leader Bob Doleset in motion Tuesday. Dole, taking advantage of a filibuster threat byGOP presidential rival Phil Gramm, scheduled a vote to end debate on Foster after three hours today. "It's brilliant," says TIME's Karen Tumulty. "He's won on both counts...
...brought his baby daughter Olivia, 10 months, to a Saturday review session in March because his wife, a physician, was working and they had no other child care arrangements...