Word: treatments
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...things ensured the success of the effort: the hostile treatment of Begin by much of the American press, and Jimmy Carter's seeming tilt toward the Arabs starting last spring. Explains Leo Mindlin, associate editor of the Miami-based Jewish Floridian: "There has been a closing of the ranks because American Jews are horrified at the prospect of a series of one-sided compromises in which the Israelis will pay." With their acute sense of survival-a sense developed in the ghettos of the Diaspora and the horrors of the Holocaust-most U.S. Jews regard that threat...
What can be done afterward about a dentist who has overcharged or provided incompetent treatment? Denholtz advises taking the complaint up with the dentist first. If you do not get satisfaction, go to your dental society, insurance carrier or consumer-advocate agency. "If nothing else works," Denholtz concludes, "then consult your attorney." But he admits that the odds are stacked against the consumer: only a handful of dentists lose their licenses each year, and malpractice suits are rarely worth the cost or trouble...
...member of a three-judge panel-desegregated public facilities, voided attempts to evade such orders through "private" schools, abolished the poll tax, ordered legislative reapportionment based on population, mandated the inclusion of women on jury rolls, expanded a suspect's right to counsel and established a "right to treatment" for mental patients. Martin Luther King Jr.-who was, ironically, being wiretapped and harassed by the FBI -once said of Judge Johnson: "That is the man who gives true meaning to the word justice...
Arrested by British forces in 1945, Kappler was turned over to Italian authorities in 1947 and the following year was tried by a military court and sentenced to life imprisonment. Last year he was transferred from prison to the hospital in Rome for treatment of terminal intestinal cancer. Since then, his wife, a nurse who had carried on a lengthy correspondence with Kappler before marrying him in a prison wedding in 1972, had become a frequent and familiar visitor. Because of Kappler's deteriorating condition, she had been allowed almost unlimited access to him, often acting as his private...
Starting next January all Blue Cross groups will be required to cast a prosecuting attorney's eye on hospital records to detect abuses and outright fraud. Records will also be screened to determine such things as whether the medical treatment given was necessary and whether the patient was kept in bed longer than required-a common device for upping hospital bills. The carrot-and-stick part of the program involves trying to persuade hospitals to draw up accurate budgets a year in advance and then to abide by them. Blue Cross will pay the agreed sum. If a hospital...