Word: physicians
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...financial exposure to rising Medicaid costs. And the G.O.P. is not proposing actual cuts, but reductions in the rate of Medicaid's growth. Still, given the outlook for affected Americans, the Medicaid proposal has drawn harsh criticism from many, like Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber, a Democrat and a physician, who calls the withdrawal of guaranteed health coverage a "cynical political move" meant to balance the budget on the backs of people who don't vote Republican. The A.M.A., which earlier endorsed the G.O.P.'s Medicare reforms, went public last week with concerns that the Medicaid safety net is being torn...
DEATH REVEALED. THYRA JOHNSTON, 91, inadvertent civil rights pioneer; in Honolulu. Fair-skinned, blue-eyed and one-eighth black, Johnston lived as a white woman in Keene, New Hampshire, with her husband Albert, a black physician who also "passed." Their white neighbors were shocked when Dr. Johnston's application for a naval commission in 1940 led him to reveal the couple's racial background. But the small town was ultimately accepting--Dr. Johnston's practice actually increased--and the story became the basis of the 1949 film Lost Boundaries...
...Friday it was pretty clear [that the cause was viral]," said Doherty, who has been in contact with Nathans' physician. "There's nothing infectious," she added...
...years students have been griping about the quality of the University Health Services (UHS). Most people have at least one story to tell--problems with scheduling, lengthy waits or difficulty in securing a primary care physician...
...attorney Wyman Nelson insists that ideology played no role in the Mary Smith incident. "This wasn't about the issue of abortion, it was about the threat to the health of a juvenile," he says. In a small town such as Blair, the word of a "very well-respected physician" like Bagby is not questioned when he claims that such a threat exists. (Most gynecologists say abortion at 23 weeks is medically acceptable but carries many times the risk of a first-trimester abortion.) Says Nelson: "If it had been a tonsillectomy or an appendectomy, we would have done...