Did you notice the logo on your doctor's pen? Though some doctors may see gifts such as pens, notepads, and dinner at four-star restuarants as harmless, one rebel group of MDs says all that pampering tarnishes the medical practice. Plus, major budget cuts may prevent health insurance from becoming available to the million and a half uninsured New Yorkers. And religion has played a large role in Bush administration policies up to now. How does this affect dealings in the Middle East? All this and a Broadway play about homosexuality and baseball.
Losing My Religion
Chris Dickey, Middle East editor and Paris bureau chief for Newsweek, on how religion affects US dealings in the Middle East
Yeerrrr Out!
Richard Greenberg, playwright of Take Me Out, a play currently performed at the Walter Kerr Theater on homophobia in major league baseball
It Takes Two
Gene Russianoff, staff attorney for the Straphangers Campaign, on the likely subway fare hike
What's Up Doc?
Dr. Bob Goodman, general internist and assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and founder of No Free Lunch, on the cozy relationship between doctors and pharmaceutical companies.
I Don't MediCare
Jim Tallon, president of the United Hospital Fund, on the one and a half million New Yorkers without health insurance
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