Word: physicians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...standard therapies available, it was a death sentence, but her oncologist, Dr. Mahesh Gupta, warmly assured her there was hope. He recommended she consider a bone-marrow transplant and, in a breach of Health Net procedure, skipped the usual channels for making referrals and arranged a consultation with a physician he knew, Dr. Robert McMillan, an oncologist at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla. Christy's sister, living in Colorado, had urged her to see a leading bone-marrow transplanter at the University of Colorado, Roy B. Jones, but the deMeurerses decided to play by the book. They drove...
...Healthcare's Simon argues that "there is nothing in our contract that should be construed as interfering with the physician-patient relationship. Doctors are encouraged to have open communications with their patients, about treatment, coverage, benefits, even the mechanism by which they are paid. It's just the specific dollar amounts that are to be withheld." But the contract terms cited by Himmelstein seem to prescribe a far greater circumspection from doctors than that...
...ARTICLE "KNOWing When to Stop." We doctors know when to halt medical treatment. However, our hands are tied. If we stop treating, we are sued, taken to court and, in some cases, jailed. Navigating the paperwork, ethics committees and legal issues of withdrawing support requires more heroics by the physician than continuing treatment. To blame physicians for the money spent in the last six months of life is like blaming the Marines for the decisions made by the generals. CHARLES E. WHITING, M.D. Glendale, California...
...people who never had health coverage are "happy just because they have a TennCare card in their pocket," says Gordon Bonnyman, a Tennessee legal-services lawyer. And many Medicaid recipients like the shift to managed care, since it provides an opportunity to build a relationship with a primary-care physician...
...seizure disorder. When he got an ear infection, her health plan refused to authorize the medicine he needed, but the cheaper medication aggravated his seizure disorder. Eventually, he got seriously ill and had to receive intravenous antibiotics. "What really aggravated me," says Guyton, "was that the [plan's] own physician said this is what Patrick needed, but then they wouldn't approve...