THE SOUL OF AN HMO

Monday, Jan. 22, 1996 By ERIK LARSON/LOS ANGELES
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It also declared that Health Net's interference in the doctor-patient relationship fit the legal definition of "extreme and outrageous behavior exceeding all bounds usually tolerated in a civilized society."

Or maybe it's just medicine on the far side of the paradigm shift. Says Dr. Ho: "I'm sorry the panel didn't see that Health Net was doing what was best for the patient, which was to deny the treatment as investigational, and which in the end was proven the right decision."

QUOTES OF THE DAY

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  • RAFAT SAEED,
  • a resident of Karachi, Pakistan, criticizing Asif Ali Zardari, widower of Benazir Bhutto and potentially Pakistan's next president, for allegations of corruption leveled against him while he was previously in office