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YOUR STORY OMITTED MANY RELEVANT points, but one stands out. TIME painted bone-marrow transplantation as a managed-care issue. It is not. It was and is an issue for everyone in health care. Our response to this issue, which we gave to you but which failed to make it into the article, is as follows: A panel of transplant physicians, drawn from California's finest medical centers, created and continuously reviews guidelines for bone-marrow transplants. Since 1994, any case that does not meet criteria for approval and is appealed is automatically referred for outside review to the Medical...
...upbeat Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III returned yesterday after taking a month's leave for a kidney transplant...
They returned to find a very different man. Suddenly, Nesmith recalls, "we were like a piece of rock. There was a total 180¡ turn." Dr. Gupta, his demeanor gone cold, now said he was not qualified to make recommendations for a transplant...
...Schinke examined Christy and agreed she ought to consider a bone-marrow transplant. At the least it might provide a period free of disease and debilitating chemotherapy. He suggested she get an evaluation at the UCLA Medical Center. To Dr. Schinke, whether Health Net would pay was a side issue. "When the patient comes to me, I'm still going to tell them about what I think may help," he says. "That's the ethical thing...
...didn't understand an administrator calling up and in an abrupt tone saying, 'Why in the world, what was your thinking, why are you recommending this patient consider such an option?'" But Dr. Ho, now with another HMO, says the call was "simply to remind him" that a transplant in a case like deMeurers' "is not indicated...