Word: physicians
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...children were born with the spinal-nerve defect called spina bifida; more than 30 others had almost no brain at all--a related and fatal neural defect called anencephaly. "It would look like somebody took a knife and just whacked the top of their head off," said Brownsville physician Manuel Guajardo...
...true and it can't be sustained," he says. Over the years, Taylor has acquired a reputation for moral integrity, and as a result, he is flooded with benefit requests from politicians and causes. He remains proudly political, "a lefty like my pop," a genteel North Carolina physician who was an Adlai Stevenson Democrat and a strong advocate for socialized medicine. The doctor's son is appalled to think of the market as the answer to America's problems. It leads, he says, to "an armed-camp mentality...
...read with interest your article on morphine and the hesitancy of U.S. physicians to prescribe it [MEDICINE, April 28]. I worked for several years as a physician in one of the world's leading burn centers in the Netherlands, where patients were given relatively massive doses of morphine for years without ever inducing addiction. It is my unequivocal belief that if a body needs pain killers, it will not get addicted to them. During many visits to burn centers all over the world, I have seen no harm from administering morphine. What I have seen is patients who have suffered...
...When a physician prescribes narcotics to treat severe pain over a long period of time, his treatment becomes the trigger for an investigation by the state pharmacy board and the state medical board for the healing arts. Both boards are powerful state agencies that have the ability to revoke licenses. This is the answer to your question "Why don't more doctors prescribe narcotics?" RAYMOND J. DRONEY, D.O. Viburnum...
...personal moral objections, as described in your story [HEALTH, April 28]. And it is shocking that the California Pharmacists Association supports such an outrageous breach of professionalism. Emergency contraception is just that--contraception, not abortion. A pharmacist should not substitute his or her judgment for that of a licensed physician by refusing to fill any prescription that has been issued by a doctor. ALEXANDER C. SANGER, President Planned Parenthood of New York City New York City...