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...clinic staff. Madsen and others sued, claiming that the injunction infringed on free speech, was skewed against pro-life sentiment and was too overreaching. Mathew Staver, their lawyer, noting that 300 ft. is almost the length of a football field, maintained, "This injunction, instead of using a surgeon's scalpel, cuts with a butcher's knife." No one knew how the Justices would...
...takes an extraordinary amount of self-confidence to wield a scalpel with skill, but most surgeons never approach the audacity of Dr. Roger Poisson. From 1977 to 1990, the French-Canadian physician falsified data on scores of patients so that he could enroll as many people as possible in important research studies on the treatment of breast cancer. To conceal the deception from the trial's American coordinators, the former head of oncology at St. Luc's Hospital in Montreal kept a double set of medical files labeled "true" and "false." His office even submitted progress reports for one woman...
...third- year medical student, he was checking on a 52-year-old male who had entered the hospital with chest pains when the patient suddenly had a massive, life- ending heart attack. In a state of preternatural calm, Nuland responded as his training had taught him: he grabbed a scalpel and scissors, cut open the man's chest and began massaging the still twitching heart. The organ, he recalls, felt like "a wet, jellylike bagful of hyperactive worms...
Opponents of a market health care system claim that if the number of doctors were to increase because of a relaxation of government regulations, the quality of doctors and the care they provided would suffer. But certification does not necessarily equal quality. A slight slip of the scalpel can occur even to a board-certified physician. Likewise, a degree from a newer medical school does not preclude high performance...
...such luck. Last week Southeastern Eye Center, a Greensboro, North Carolina, clinic specializing in cataract surgery, announced that it intends to file a defamation suit against Dateline for a May 4 feature titled "Cataract Cowboys." The segment focused its harsh lights on scalpel-happy surgeons who earn millions by allegedly operating on patients who don't need surgery...