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...auto accident while on the way to tell a reporter about alleged health and nuclear safety violations in the plant where she worked. Just before returning to the Tennessean, Srouji finished writing Critical Mass, a paean to the nuclear industry to be released this summer by Aurora Publishers Inc., a small Nashville concern. The book casts Silkwood in an unflattering light, raising questions about drug usage and her sex habits. Called last month to testify before a House subcommittee investigating nuclear safeguards, Srouji disclosed that the FBI had shown her nearly 1,000 pages of bureau documents on the Silkwood...
...cases involves Dr. Eugene R. Balthazar, the founder of a highly regarded free clinic in Aurora, Ill. (TIME, Jan. 26), who was accused of malpractice by a woman treated for a facial malignancy. Though the patient's suit was tossed out of court, Balthazar and a colleague felt that they had been needlessly harassed. Charging "reckless disregard for the truth" and malicious prosecution, they are seeking only nominal damages of $2 from the woman but $20,600 from her two lawyers. Another Illinois doctor has taken a different stance: he has charged a patient's lawyer with barratry...
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...more than 40 years Balthazar had practiced medicine in Aurora. Then in 1972, at the age of 70, he decided to retire. But instead of heading for the golf links of Florida or Arizona, he set up his free clinic. "I felt I had an obligation to the community," explains Balthazar, who had long been known as a doctor who let patients pay whenever and whatever they could. Besides, he says, such service is in the best tradition of medicine. "Oh, yes," he admits, "we have a very mercenary segment that displays the avariciousness and lack of humanitarianism...
Free Expertise. For the first two years, Balthazar and his wife-who has since died of cancer-spent $30,000 of their own money to keep the clinic going. Now he has reluctantly agreed to a fund drive in Aurora to help meet expenses. Other help has come forward...