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...Bayard Britton, 69, was wearing a bullet-proof vest, but the gunman shot him in the head. The wife of the slain escort was injured. Paul Hill, who has in the past advocated violence as a biblically sanctioned means to stop abortion, has been arrested. Another Pensacola abortion-clinic physician was murdered in March, 1993. Spokespeople for and against abortion rights condemned today's slaying...
...patients' minds is, 'Nobody wants him. What's wrong with him?' " So these days Dr. Shuwarger is having trouble ; making ends meet: he is living on his savings and may close down his practice. And then? He's thinking of looking for a job as a staff physician in a managed-care plan. If it will have...
...bookkeeping time, patients are just a source of cash. In Texas the lawsuit brought by Dr. Maidenberg and four other doctors accuses Aetna of violating their "property rights" by taking away their patients. In Florida, when the Humana insurance plan sued Dr. Ira Jacobson because the Miami family physician quit and took 170 Humana patients with him, it demanded payment of $700 a head for its lost customers. A state appeals court ruled in December 1992 that Dr. Jacobson owed nothing; after all, said the court, Humana did not own the patients...
...Most people suffering from heart failure are apparently not getting the proper drug treatment. Nor do they follow their doctor's orders on diet and exercise. New federal guidelines call for greater reliance on drugs called ACE inhibitors, which help lower blood pressure, and improved communication and cooperation between physician and patient...
...Netherlands boasts one of the worlds most liberal policies on mercy killing, but the Bosscher case caused a sensation. Never before had a physician reported helping a depressed but otherwise healthy patient commit suicide. Of the estimated 2,300 cases of euthanasia and 400 cases of assisted suicide in Holland each year, virtually all involve patients suffering from a terminal illness or unbearable physical pain. Officials charged Chabot with violating the strict guidelines that permit doctors to help patients end their lives. Last week, in a landmark decision, the country's highest court ruled that though Chabot neglected to have...