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To the Editor: Karen Ignagni, the president of the American Association of Health Plans, stated in the October 9 issue, "The editor of the New England Journal of Medicine is entitled to be a critic of managed care, but it is profoundly disturbing to see such an important and presumably dispassionate publication used as a sounding board for these critical views."¹ That managed care promotes the slogan "Putting patients first" says it all. That is the unspoken assumption of the medical profession. It has been the foundation of the physician–patient relationship since Hippocrates. This special relationship is based on honor, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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