Word: internist
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Representative Thomas Bliley might want to hold off on that annual checkup for a couple of months - or at least until his internist calms down over the Virginia Republican's newest proposal. Bliley wants to reopen debate on the confidentiality of the National Practitioner Data Bank, which houses discipline reports on the country's doctors. Bliley says he wants to inform consumers about doctors with questionable records - ranging from sexual assault to failure to correctly fill out a license renewal form - by passing legislation that would require the information to be made available to the general public. At present...
Wayburn--who also practiced medicine as an internist and clinical professor--served as five-time president of the Sierra Club, a national environmental advocacy organization of which he is currently honorary president...
Even if unions are deemed legal, many doctors question whether organizing is necessary--or ethical. "We're in a group that makes in the top 1% in income, and I'm not sure we need that kind of protection," argues Fred Campbell, a San Antonio, Texas, internist. Even more troubling is the image of doctors jeopardizing their patients by going on strike. On those grounds, Albert Yellin, a Los Angeles vascular surgeon, opposed the unionization last month of 800 Los Angeles County physicians. "Using our patients as hostages to gain things within our own self-interest is anathema...
...Some 400 have joined Bradley's New Hampshire campaign, and his events around the state draw full houses, though it's too early to tell the curious from the committed. He's performing well on the stump; after his thoughtful speech at the state party convention in Manchester, an internist named Dick Tartow, 67, who had volunteered for Gore just two weeks before, yanked off his GORE 2000 button and replaced it with one that said BRADLEY FOR PRESIDENT. And at the doughnut shop, state representative Amy Robb-Theroux, 34, is also having second thoughts about working for Gore. "People...
Consider my experience with America's Doctor Online, which was launched last month on AOL. The service (keyword: amdoc) provides free access to a real-time electronic chat with one of about 40 M.D.s 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The brainchild of Dr. Scott Rifkin, an internist who practices in Owings Mills, Md., America's Doctor Online offers a small library of medical information. For more complete resources, check out the American Heart Association www.amhrt.org or the Mayo Clinic www.mayohealth.org...