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...affliction is neurofibromatosis, a terrifying and, so far, incurable neurological disorder usually accompanied by varying degrees of deformity. Though most Americans had not heard of it before the Dallas episodes, or before The Elephant Man, a play about Merrick, opened in New York City this year, the ailment is surprisingly common; in the U.S., it affects some 100,000 people...
...Though neurofibromatosis is still poorly understood, medical researchers have recently been focusing on a blood protein that is unusually high in some victims of the disease. But a cure seems far off, and Courtemanche and the foundation are concentrating their efforts on showing victims how to live with the disorder. Says Courtemanche: "Merrick bore up with tremendous dignity and grace. You have to develop an inner peace with yourself - otherwise you're just condemned to a living hell...
Doctors like few things better than exchanging anecdotes about the deficiencies or skills of their colleagues. But most would rather give up their stethoscopes than publicly compare the relative abilities of their fellow physicians. Now, though, an enterprising medical writer, John Pekkanen, has enticed hundreds of doctors to rate some of their own. His new book, The Best Doctors in the U.S. (Seaview Books; $10.95), lists 2,500 of the nation's top specialists, judged so by their peers...
...Though Pekkanen admits that a list of 2,500 (out of more than 400,000 physicians in the nation) omits many of the best, bruised egos abound. Ignored doctors have sent Pekkanen their multipage résumés, and the distraught wife of one physician forwarded even more convincing evidence of her husband's merit: a photograph of him with Merv Griffin...
...team of high-powered lobbyists to work up House and Senate support. Much of the pressuring was concentrated on Wisconsin's Proxmire, who had let it be known that he would be in no great hurry to have his committee report out an aid bill before Christmas. Though Proxmire's opposition to the bailout is genuine enough, by last week he had agreed to a Riegle request that his hearings on the bill be moved forward from Nov. 19 to next week, so that they could be finished before the Thanksgiving recess...