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...noted that much of that money is sent by unofficial means, appears on no records and is never reported to tax officials. But it isn't only poor migrants and their families who avoid paying host-country taxes. Our two children were born in France, and both times the obstetrician offered a reduced fee if we paid in cash. Christopher Henze Neuilly, France Remembering Hugh Sidey How very sad to hear of the passing of Time columnist Hugh Sidey [Dec. 5]. Over the years I have always found his writing inspiring. Somehow, as he commented on Presidents and the office...
...jury awarded him damages of $366 million from Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas and three colleagues who trumped up charges of substandard care against him to eliminate him as a competitor. Says Poliner: "It's unfathomable that a process that should be about healing could be used to attack doctors." Obstetrician John Raviotta, after reporting to state authorities dangerous obstetrics policies at the Community Memorial Health Center in South Hill, Va., lost privileges there as a result of a peer review that included doctors from the facility. "As contractors of that hospital, how can the doctors be objective?" he asks...
...baby is not descending. By midnight the next night, 23 hours after that first pinch, my wife had barely progressed, although she was having contractions every five minutes. We asked three different doctors how slow was too slow, and we got three different answers. Every time her obstetrician performed an exam, she would shake her head and say nothing had really changed. My wife was worried that the doctors would start using the c-word (for caesarean section). She was tired and cranky, and worst of all for both of us, she was in pain...
...point where contractions cease, causing progression to fail and increasing the likelihood of a caesarean. I'm a doctor, but I was struck by just how difficult this decision is for the patient--and her husband--as we sat there in the middle of the night conferring with her obstetrician...
...brought by a California couple who attributed the suicide of their 24-year-old son largely to inept counseling by his pastors. (That particular suit, filed in 1980, was dismissed for a second time last year; the case is still being appealed.) Suits against doctors, particularly specialists such as obstetricians and neurosurgeons, have been more successful and have led to some of the highest insurance premiums. A typical annual premium for an obstetrician in Los Angeles is about $45,000, and for a neurosurgeon in Long Island, N.Y., about...