On the recordOctober 25, 2000
I was fortunate that I was in a fee for service. But if you listen to the doctors who came to the Senate a few weeks ago, they talked about the fact that they just in good conscience sometimes had to just take the risk of going against the HMO's decision because they just could not deny an examination that they felt was needed for a patient. The testimony of the mother whose daughter's name is the same as mine, Donna Marie, who died because she did not have the appropriate test was a testimony to that. We took an oath. To make some of the decisions that the HMOs place on us goes against the oath that we took as physicians.
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