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To the Editor: The story Levine tells in her Sounding Board piece (May 20 issue)¹ is tragically familiar to any primary care physician. I sympathize with her for the loss of the man who was once her husband and is now her family care patient. Clearly, she is still grieving after nine years.

However, I am not sure her odyssey is much different from that of many family care givers, dating back to a time long before managed care and a "market-driven health care economy." Medical technology saves even more critically ill and injured patients than before, but outcomes are . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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