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With doctors pressed to treat more patients in less time, "teaching slows you down and takes up space if the student wants to see a patient," he said...
...join the type of organization he had previously criticized? "If you want to treat patients these days," says Himmelstein, "you have to become a part of HMOs." Other physicians have felt these pressures and become similarly, if less vocally, disillusioned with HMO practices. One Los Angeles doctor worked dutifully for three years as a neurologist for CIGNA HealthCare, a large HMO. When she advised the mother of a brain-damaged boy that a muscle biopsy might help diagnose the extent of his condition, she was chided by her bosses for suggesting the test. "I was told it was a mistake...
...They treat the mayor of Cambridge as a symbolic position, but the truth of the matter is that today the chairing of a school committee could never be ceremonial," Reeves said. "I'm very interested in ensuring that we do not fail our children...
...HEARTBURN HEAVEN These days there are more ways to treat heartburn than to get it. Two widely prescribed anti-ulcer drugs--Pepcid and Tagamet--were approved by the fda as over-the-counter remedies. A third drug, called Zantac, will become available...
Cutting payments to doctors and hospitals is another option. But Medicaid already pays far less to health providers than Medicare and private insurers pay; nursing homes, for example, often get 25% to 30% less. If payments fall further, more doctors and hospitals could simply refuse to treat Medicaid patients. Managed care, meanwhile, is still touted as a cost-saving panacea. And it does hold promise, as many state experiments attest. But there may be only so much efficiency to be extracted from the treatment of, say, disabled seniors tethered to oxygen machines...