The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Tuesday, August 27, 1996              TAG: 9608270009
SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A14  EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                            LENGTH:   18 lines

REMEMBER OATH

I am grateful to those four courageous doctors for standing up to that megamonopoly HMO and for protecting their 1,500 cancer patients by refusing to go along with the unethical practices HMOs are forcing on this nation's people.

We need our medical industry to remember the Hippocratic oath in this era of medicine vs. money. Hopefully more physicians will speak up and tell the public how to help prevent business from running our health.

KAREN VAUGHAN

Virginia Beach, Aug. 23, 1996 by CNB