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That doesn't mean a doctor can prescribe narcotics with impunity. For one thing, this can be hazardous to one's career. Medical-review boards in some states, notably Tennessee, West Virginia and New York, are notorious for singling out physicians who prescribe a lot of narcotics and yanking their licenses. "I tend to underprescribe instead of using stronger drugs that could really help my patients," a West Virginia doctor admits. "I can't afford to lose my ability to support my family...
...Hoover, formerly of Key West, Florida. In December 1993, Hoover got into trouble with Florida authorities because she had treated the chronic pain of seven of her 15,000 patients with narcotics. A pain specialist testified at her 1995 hearing that she was practicing within accepted guidelines. But the review board censured her anyway--a decision that was reversed on appeal. Says Hoover, who now practices in West Virginia: "There is a belief that anyone who prescribes narcotics is a bad doctor...
Dershowitz's conclusions were dubbed "lame" in a review by Elliott Abrams, a think-tank head and former Assistant Secretary of State whose own book on assimilation, Faith or Fear (Free Press; 256 pages; $25), is due in June. Abrams too detects a distortion in American Jewish self-image: he thinks the elite, eager to fit in, traded religious identity for the less off-putting "faith" of secular liberalism, and the price is outmarriage. "Jewishness without Judaism," he insists, "cannot be transmitted from generation to generation...
This spring an unusual and virtually simultaneous blooming of senior novelists is taking place. Norman Mailer (see following review), Saul Bellow, the mysterious Thomas Pynchon and a seemingly perennial Philip Roth all have new works scheduled for publication. American Pastoral (Houghton Mifflin; 423 pages; $26) is Roth's fourth offering in fewer than seven years, making the 64-year-old a sort of Cal Ripkin of American letters...
...addition to his work on information technology, as an Overseer Johnston has served on the board's Executive Committee and the standing committee on humanities and arts and helped with the Overseers' recent review of the visitation process, which assigns each Overseer to committees to evaluate Harvard's various organs on a rotating basis...