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Experts Dispute Remark That Living Wills Save Money Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said this week that encouraging senior citizens to write living wills could dramatically reduce Medicare's skyrocketing health care costs.Doctors Are Warned on Fetus CareThe Bush administration issues guidelines advising physicians and hospitals that they are obligated to care for fetuses "born alive" naturally or in the process of an abortion.Disparities Cited for Medicare Drug BenefitThe prescription drug benefit available next year will cost senior citizens an average of $722 annually, but retirees with chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease can expect to pay about double that amount and face gaps in their coverage, a new study finds.Establishing ProofIt took 15 years to discover the link between oxygen and blindness -- 15 years in which a mysterious disease haunted America's best hospitals.D.C. Calls for Doctor Oversight HearingCouncil member David A. Catania said the hearing is in response to a series of Washington Post articles that reported the medical board rarely disciplines troubled doctors.A Track Record of Lies And of Job DismissalsPhysician Mahmoud Nemazee has had career problems over the past 18 years, but he has always resurrected himself by moving on -- to a new job in a new place.Red Flags About Md. Man IgnoredObstetrician-gynecologist Jeffrey M. Levitt needed a job, and Stuttgart, Ark., needed an OB-GYN. So the country town about an hour southeast of Little Rock was prepared to overlook the warning signs.Multiple State Licenses Helped Conceal HistoryAfter physician Joseph S. Hayes was charged in 1999 with fondling female patients -- but before he was convicted -- he simply pulled out a different state license and moved. He left Tennessee and got a job at a wellness center in South Carolina, where he had held a license since 1973.Physicians Outrun Poor Records, PastsFacing problems in one state, hundreds of doctors simply moved and restarted their careers despite a system designed to prevent just that.Despite Deaths, Doctor Kept LicenseThe District board ignored an administrative law judge's recommendation to revoke OB-GYN Gideon M. Kioko's license, despite public pleas and a history of incidents in Maryland.
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