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...husband whose wife is battling a recurrence of breast cancer, I have some advice for the DEA: be sure your far-flung investigative net snares real abusers, not just physicians whose patients, without treatment, are unable to live decently. In comparing a physician convicted of drug trafficking to a cocaine or heroin dealer, DEA administrator Karen Tandy sends a threatening message to physicians and patients alike. Unless rhetoric is followed up with a thoughtful and commonsense policy, it will be government run amuck. You can be sure that I and thousands of others will do what is necessary...
BILL FRIST, Senate majority leader and an anti-choice physician, supporting federal funding for stem-cell research on frozen embryos left over at fertility clinics, in a bill opposed by President George W. Bush and religious conservatives...
...drugs. Despite a distinguished professional record spanning more than four decades, Nelson has had to spend $20,000 on lawyers, fearing that the government will indict him if it turns out that one of his patients has misused his medicine. "My practice is sunk," says the 73-year-old physician, who specializes in chronic-pain treatment. "I can't even write a prescription for Tylenol 3 if someone has a migraine...
...past year, hundreds of sufferers have contacted the Baltimore-based American Pain Foundation. "They've gone to every physician within hundreds of miles and can't get someone to prescribe to them," says executive director Will Rowe. In some cases, patients with high-dosage prescriptions are turned away by drug stores, which are also subject to DEA investigations. "It's demeaning," says Mary Vargas, a Maryland attorney whose spine was injured in an auto accident. "Pharmacists tell me they don't have the medication, only to recant and dispense it when I persist with the manager...
...didn't go to the park today,'" smiles Mickey Cobb, the trainer, "but I knew by looking at the room that he went every day." A small, bald man of 44, Cobb began life at 2 lbs. in rural Georgia, polio-ridden and without benefit of physician. He started limping at four. "I couldn't play when my friends were playing," he says, "so I carried the Band-Aids...