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Sir / The Professional Standard Review Organization, as mandated by federal law, is a serious intrusion into the patient-doctor relationship. With peer review as the norm, some of the less expert medical practitioners may be selected out. But more important, the creative, humanistic, unorthodox physician will be selected out. For years, unofficial peer consensus militated against legalized abortion, home delivery, natural childbirth and the husband's presence in the delivery room.
JANICE CASEY, R.N.
La Jolla, Calif.