Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happens, homeopathy was born out of frustration with mainstream medicine as it was practiced in the late 18th century. It was founded by Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician who was horrified by such standard therapies of his day as bloodletting, purging and blistering. Hahnemann eventually abandoned his medical practice and started looking for safer ways to treat patients. One of his investigations focused on quinine, then (and now) the treatment of choice for malaria. Though he was healthy, Hahnemann dosed himself with the drug and observed that he experienced the same fevers and chills that characterize the disease...
...label prescribing so common? Chiefly because pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to invest the time and expense to get FDA clearance on new uses for an established drug--especially when the drug's safety has already been proved. Says Dr. Martin Raber, physician in chief of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston: "It is accepted practice that once a drug is FDA-approved it can be freely used." But the FDA gets nervous when a drug's unapproved uses overshadow its original purpose. Retin-A cream, for example, was approved by the FDA for the treatment of acne...
...fact, a growing problem. For years insurers have recognized the importance of off-label prescribing and have agreed to reimburse patients for their prescriptions. Now many cost-conscious managed-care firms have started to clamp down on off-label reimbursements--especially if the medication is particularly expensive. "A physician and patient can argue with the insurer," says Dr. Howard Ozer, director of the Winship Cancer Center at Emory University in Atlanta. "But if it goes on for too long and the patient can't pay for the drug out of his own pocket, he can die before the approval...
...David M. Livingston '61, former physician-in-chief, and several other top administrators stepped down this spring. Livingston is still director of the institute...
...would right now be gearing itself up for its trial of the decade. There would be outrage at the death of a young woman who had achieved so much in the face of adversity and who looked forward to a life-time of service to the community as a physician. There would be demands that justice be served on the criminal who ended it all. Instead, Tadesse is spoken of with pity--a victim to be memorialized rather than a wrongdoer to be punished...