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...most outspoken critics of teaching hospitals affiliating with for-profit companies is Dr. Arnold Relman, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. He acknowledges that outright sales or lease arrangements like McLean is considering may help hospitals in the short run, but he fears the long term implications of people concerned with maximizing profits having a hand in administering teaching and research. He said that hospitals like McLean should avoid deals such as the one being discussed and that the government should take a more active role in supporting teaching and research...
...would be frankly dismayed and disappointed it Harvard and the MGH trustees decided to lease McLean to HCA I don't think the community's needs would be served in the long run," said Relman...
...marijuana. Its main finding: widespread use of the drug "justifies serious national concern." But after 15 months of study, the academy concluded that there is, as yet, insufficient research to decide whether or not marijuana causes irreversible long-term health damage. The 22-member study committee, chaired by Arnold Relman, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, analyzed 1,000 scientific studies of the health effects associated with marijuana and called for further research. Among its conclusions...
...Relman: I started out saying in principle I'm in favour of prepaid health care, but it certainly should be explored...One of the great things about this country is that we're big enough and rich enough so that we can be very pluralistic and we don't have to commit ourselves to one solution for anything. I think we ought to try a number of different approches...And if you personally don't like one way of health care, you have a number of options and the same for doctors...We may fall flat on our face...
...Relman: The facts are the facts. They are not a matter of opinion. I think it is true that now that AMA has a smaller regular full-dues-paying membership and a smaller fraction of the total practicing population of American doctors than a few decades ago...It's posing a real problem because if the AMA wants to speak for American medicine, it has to be able to demonstrate that it represents at least a majority and right new it does not...Now what is this due to?...The first and most obvious reason why the AMA is having...