Medicine: Choosing a Doctor

Brown-eyed, bobbed-haired Dr. Marian Staats Newcomer, 47, of Manhattan, remembers the qualms she suffered when a Syracuse University nose & throat specialist wanted to remove her tonsils. Although at the time she was a medical student of that University, she scooted home to her family doctor. "I knew," said she last week, "this beloved physician was not in a position to tell me more about my throat than the man who had already spoken so authoritatively on the subject. But he did know a great deal about my general health and background and I wished to add his opinion to that...

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