Word: platts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Watching the film is often like staring at a confounding blur: Pretty Baby's narrative often seems to be languishing somewhere in the film's hazy background. That's a shame, because the screenplay is built around an exciting idea. Malle and Scenarist Polly Platt have hypothesized a romance-and eventual marriage-between Heroine Violet (Brooke Shields) and E.J. Bellocq (Keith Carradine), the legendary photographer of Storyville's glory days. This couple's bizarre March-December affair, like the equally promising relationship between Violet and her prostitute mother (Susan Sarandon), is described only intermittently. Instead...
...doctor who does a caesarean to avoid a difficult birth can rarely be faulted legally; on the other hand, a physician who performs a forceps delivery may find himself facing a malpractice suit if the infant turns out impaired. New York Hospital's executive associate director, Melville Platt, a former practicing obstetrician, notes that such "defensive" medicine makes good economic sense. In 1969 a New York City obstetrician had to pay $3,000 a year for malpractice protection. Today the same coverage costs...
...Platt Los Angeles...
...Patricia Swinton, indicted with Alpert, is still a fugitive, as are Weatherpeople Cathlyn Platt Wilkerson, Bernardine Dohrn and Kathy Boudin...
Crippling Costs. The resulting rise in rates is "a disaster," says Dr. Melville Platt, associate director of professional services at New York Hospital. Most doctors agree. A New York City obstetrician has to shell out $9,433 a year to keep himself adequately covered against lawsuits; a specialist in a high-risk field like neurosurgery must pay $14,329 for protection. Doctors elsewhere face similar hikes. Dr. Suzanne