Word: physicians
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...from out of town and says, 'If you don't do everything you can to save her, I'm going to sue your socks off.' " Dr. John Ely, a professor at the University of Iowa College of Medicine says there has never been a successful suit against a physician who gave treatment in accordance with family wishes and against the patient's wishes. "That's because the patients aren't there," he says. "They are either incompetent or they have already died...
...considering price controls, at least in the short run, on insurers, health-care providers, and prescriptions. Over the long term, it is leaning toward a kind of indirect price control on doctors called a "budgeted fee for service." The reformers envision a health-care system in which almost every physician in the country will become part of a network, practicing under caps and within a preset budget. Even if not part of a formal health-maintenance organization, groups of doctors will join together to offer their services through a health alliance. In return, the doctors will be paid...
...want to stick with their present doctors, will have to wait and see. Since the plan may give states great flexibility in designing local health plans, some states could allow citizens who want to remain with their family doctor to pay a little more to do so if that physician is not signed up with the local health plan. But other states may limit the choice to the doctors in the designated health plan...
Blumenthal has devoted his career to studying health care policy from vantage points as diverse as that of a Kennedy School of Government faculty member, a primary care physician, and a staff member for Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass...
...captain and hope for the future, Reggie Lewis. The 27-year-old forward collapsed during a % postseason game at Boston Garden. Lewis, who is the Celtics' leading scorer, bravely returned to the game before weakening and finally heading for the bench for good. A few days later, a team physician delivered a disturbing diagnosis: Lewis had "focal cardiomyopathy," an ailment that damages an area of the heart and causes it to beat irregularly. Hank Gathers of Loyola Marymount University, another celebrated young basketball player, died from cardiomyopathy in 1990. Lewis said he would seek a second opinion. And Celtics fans...