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...extraordinary charges cap several years of civil proceedings against the 55-year-old physician, who first came to the attention of authorities after what seemed to be an unusual string of false pregnancies. According to the government, Jacobson was giving patients hormone treatments that simulated the effects of early pregnancy. At hearings before a committee of the Virginia Board of Medicine in 1989, several women wept as they described how Jacobson would show them sonograms of what he said was their fetus, pointing out nonexistent heartbeats, fetal movements and thumb-sucking. He would give them fetal snapshots to take home...
Eliminate tax subsidies for underused and obsolete hospitals. Together with the discipline of managed care and physician disclosure requirements, this change will help weed out vestigial institutions so that taxpayer support for health care can be put to better uses...
...Washington State. Voters shied away from legalizing physician-assisted suicide...
Lakers team physician Dr. Michael Mellman stressed Johnson's leaving basketball was not a reflection on his immediate physical condition...
This argument, however, ignores the definition of a doctor. Professor Leon Kass, M.D., of the University of Chicago, notes that euthanasia "would change the meaning of being a physician from being a healer to that of being an annihilator." He reminds us that the role of the physician has been that of a person who benefits "the sick by the activity of healing...