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...Leading physicians are raising alarms that new financial pressures on teaching hospitals may force them to quit training young doctors, potentially devastating the quality and diversity of U.S. medical care down the road. One such hospital in New York City, St. Luke's-Roosevelt, estimates that if planned cuts in Medicare and Medicaid discussed by Speaker Newt Gingrich, New York Governor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani all go through, the hospital will lose more than $35 million per year and may have to eliminate physician training entirely. "At some point," says TIME health care writer Janice...
Debbie Allen, the Quayle family physician, told Time last Friday that Quayle is in excellent health. Yet she conceded that because he has had blood clots in the past, ``that would predispose him to getting blood clots in his leg again.'' Meanwhile, his medical problems further complicated his fund- raising problems. Says Quayle political adviser Mark Goodin: ``The hospitalizations put him behind the curve at a crucial moment when the other candidates were getting their organizations together and raising money...
...aspires to a career as a physician and health policy analyst. Jagsi spent last summer interning at Boston's Health Care for All, an organization which runs a health helpline for the uninsured...
...physician must show compassion, an ability to establish a partnership with the patient or the patient will not get well," says Theresa J. Orr, assistant dean for admissions and financial aid at Harvard Medical School...
...will vote. Earlier, a stinging New York Times editorial called the pick "badly bungled" and one that should "die quickly." The powerful American Medical Association, which speaks for about 300,000 U.S. doctors, strongly supported Foster today, though its endorsement was seen more as an obligatory defense of a physician's right to practice ethical medicine than a political stand in behalf of the Foster nomination. For his part, Foster told a group of medical students at George Washington University today: "I am standing strong." While the Clinton Administration is expected to continue to fight for Foster, a source close...