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...lost in a shuffle between rotating doctors. The physicians, meanwhile, are transformed from professionals into employees, with a duty to serve not only the interests of their patients but the demands of the corporation as well. "They're asking physicians to pay for their decisions," says internist Madeleine Neems in Lake Bluff, Ill. "That's a terrible concept. When you analyze whether or not a patient needs an expensive test, a lot of times it's not a clear-cut yes or no. I don't want my finances tied into those decisions...
Across the country, physicians upset by the story criticized the unnamed resident's action. "Euthanasia is practiced," says Washington Internist Jon Wiseman. "But usually it's done in a more passive kind of way, by withholding treatment -- not by putting someone to sleep like a dog." Do doctors commonly make that kind of decision alone? "No one talks about that kind of stuff," he says. Manhattan Internist Eric Cassell, who prefers not to pass moral judgment on mercy killing, believes that if it does occur, it should be only because the "circumstances are impossible to change or bear -- not merely...
...Segal, a retired East Berlin biologist who is unknown to Western AIDS experts, claimed that the virus originated in biological-warfare experiments at Fort Detrick, Md. Segal's allegation resurfaced in Zambia, then in London's Sunday Express, which cited support for the charge from Robert B. Strecker, an internist in Glendale, Calif., and John R. Seale, a British expert in venereal diseases. Strecker, who has written that the AIDS virus could have originated in either a natural or an artificial combination of viruses, dismisses the biological- warfare angle as "just speculation." Seale believes the deadly virus was man-made...
...rate: 57. Weight: 184 lbs., 0 pounds above/below that recommended for a 6-ft. 1-in. male. Yet they belong to a certain 74-year-old whose Oval Office job is mostly sedentary. Ronald Reagan's "overall physical and mental condition is excellent," says Navy Captain Walter Karney, the internist who headed up the team of doctors that administered the examination at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. Reagan's blood pressure this year is even lower than it was last year...
Controversy continues to swirl about the implant. Los Angeles Internist David Olch, a member of the American Medical Association's judicial council, which proposed guidelines for the replacement of failing organs, issued a scathing criticism of the Humana hospital chain in last week's American Medical News. Asked Olch: "Will the artificial heart benefit Schroeder as much as it benefits [Designer Robert] Jarvik, Humana and the surgical team?" Responded Dr. Allan Lansing, medical director of the Louisville hospital's heart institute: "Business in the health industry has been criticized for not supporting research. Now they...