European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday november 22,1987 doctors mean income up 6.5% to $120,000 Chicago a the mean income of physician Rose 6.5 percent last year to Arnn 2c, annually far outstripping inflation according to he american medical association. The increase greatly surpassed inc 1986 Advance in the consumer Price Index which Rosc just 1.1 percent said an article in Friday s edition of american medical news the Ama s weekly newspaper. Longer work hours caused More of the Rise than fee increases the article said with More surgical proce dures also contributing. Bui consumer advocates called for More govern ment controls saying the jump is scandalous and physician overcharges for medicare services Are out  income increases among specialists varied widely with radiologists enjoying the largest a growth of 17 percent to an average of  while family practice physicians saw a Rine of Only 3 percent to 580,300 annually. Figures represented income before taxes but after All professional expenses said the Ama s socioeconomic monitoring system report for november the source of the data. Researchers for the am a. The nation s largest Organ i Alion of doctors found mean physician income was ii 19,500 in 1986, a Rise of 6.5 percent Over 1985. To comparison the average earnings by american men Rose 4,4 percent test year to $15.256, and average earnings of a Tryl a women went up 3.9 percent to 516,232, according to . Census Bureau statistics cited. The Ama said the average physician spent 52.2 hours a week caring for patients in 1986, up an hour from 1983, and performed an average of 3.5 surgical procedures weekly up from an average of three proce dures in 1985, the mean fee for an office visit with an established Pai enl Rose by 3.5 percent to $30.10 in 1986, the smallest increase in id years the article said. But or. Sidney Wolfe director of the 60,000-Mcm Ber Public citizen health research group in washing ton d.c., said his organisation is beginning to see a Public groundswell against High doctor incomes. Letters indicate overcharges to medicare patients so percent of whose Bills arc paid by inc Federal government have become widespread. It s outrageous that these doctors feel they need to overcharge he said. It s not like they re living on the Brink of  a recent analysis by medical economics Magazine estimated that Over the past three years doctors in comes have gone up 24.5 percent compared with a 9.1 percent Rise in Overall inflation Wolfe said legislation has been introduced in 15 Stales that would Force doctors to accept As full pay ment the Levels of reimbursement the government determines Are reasonable for medicare treatment when doctors charge More the patient must make up the difference. Big Jim Folsom former governor of Alabama Dies at Home at 79 Cullman Ala a former two Terra gov. James e. Big Jim Bottom a 6-foot-� Folk hero who built a reputation As � moderate on race issues during turbulent limes died saturday. He Wai 79. Folsom died about 3 in. This Cullman Home raid Peck Fox administrative Anisun to it. Gov. Jim Folsom jr., the late Gover nor s son. Foloto or. Wat in fail ing health in recent years and in legally Blind for More than a decade. De spite his ailments he kept up his love affair with the ballot running for one of fice or another every elec Tion season until he Wai finally bedridden in Hii last years. Folsom his health was Loo poor in january 1987 for him to travel to Montgomery to see his son Lake the oath of office and preside Over the renaming of the state administrative building in his Honor. Folsom won hit first term As governor in 1946, the state with the Strawberry pickers band and the song yall come As his Campaign theme. A mop and bucket in hand he told crowds at dozens of town squares that he was going to Dean out the Scala wags " at the Capitol he won his second four year term in 1954 and de spite growing racial turmoil built a reputation As populist and racial moderate once even sharing a drink on a portico of the executive mansion with Black . Rep. Adam Clayton Powell of new vote known also As Kissin Jim for his habit of bussing women at Campaign rallies Folsom had a Large family thai we full of political figure. His father was sheriff i f South Alabama s Coffee county and his son jimjr., won two terms on the Public service commission before becoming lieutenant governor. One of the former governor s nieces Cornelia Wal lace was the second wife of gov. Gorge c. Wallace who Early in his career was a Cash in operative for Folsom. Tabatha taken off antibiotics Pittsburgh a three year old Tabatha Foster battling with courage and spunk to recover from a landmark five Organ transplant has been taken off antibiotics surgeons said Friday. We can t go to any Book and say what do you do because no one has been there before said  Rowe chief of surgery at children s Hospital of Pittsburgh. What we re doing is feeling our  doctors say they have Tabatha to thank in part for becoming the first person to survive an experimental five Organ transplant for More than a few Days. The operation has been performed Only twice be fore in the United Stales both times unsuccessfully. She just has a tremendous amount of courage and spunk i think that s Why she s doing so Well in the first place Rowe said at a Hospital news Confer ence. If you re bending Over doing some kind of a med ical procedure the says boo she tries to scare you. Thai s her big trick Rowe said. The Madisonville ky., girl who was bom with a deadly intestinal deformity received a new liver pancreas Small intestine and pans of a stomach and Colon during a 15-hour operation that ended nov. 1. Although she s suffered at limes from minor infections and was forced to undergo minor surgery a week after the transplant to repair suture openings doctors said they re cautiously optimistic since she shows no signs of Organ rejection. Tabatha was taken off antibiotics Friday for the first time since her transplant Rowe said. Since thursday Rowe said the girl also has been fed a special baby formula consisting of easily digestible carbohydrates and protein through a lube connected to her Small intestine. One of the deceptive things about this child is that he looks so Good and things a re going relatively Well Rowe said. If you tit Back and think about this you be got five different organs you be got immune suppress Sives drugs Given to reduce Organ rejection you have everything finely balanced. It s easy to fall into a false sense of  Rowe said it s difficult to know when Tabatha will be moved out of intensive care or Lake her first bite of food. The girl has never consumed solid food. Townspeople in Madisonville meanwhile Are celebrating Tabatha Foster week with a series of fund raising activities. Statewide University gets ruling on homosexual rights Washington a the nation1 oldest Catholic University May deny official recognition to  Erow i t i mus slow them the same service and privilege accorded other Campus organizations a court has ruled. The District of Columbia court of Appeal ruled Friday that forbidding discrimination outweighed any Burden that equal provision or the tangible benefits would impose on Georgetown s religious  the ruling is the result of a lawsuit brought against the University in 1980 by the Gay rights coalition of Georgetown University Law Center and he Gay people of Georgetown University. Rotary club apologizes for striptease incident Warren Ohio a a rotary club has apologized for staging a hoax in which a woman was introduced As the chapter s first female member and then performed a strip tease. A Good rotary club has erred or. James Lapolla said lit a rotary International District meeting. Lapolla is governor of the District and a member of the Howland township rotary club which staged the hoax. Rotary groups nationwide have been accept ing women As members since a supreme court ruling last May. At the Rowland club s nov. 2 meeting a woman was introduced As an attorney and the firs woman proposed for chapter membership. She began dancing then disrobed. At the end of her act police staged a mock raid. Rotary numbers bad to give 110 to Char Ity to avoid  car stereo outlet gets cloak and Dagger Calls Shelby . A Mark Beaver like his work with a car Lereno outlet but he does take some strange Telephone Calls one Man. For example wanted to report terrorist activity in Spain. The reason Tor the unusual clientele Beaver discovered is that the number at his business. Communications equipment Pullet of Shelby is one digit away from the listed number for the Central intelligence Agency in Mclean a. Call 704-482-1100 and you gel the ceo Call 703-4s2-1100 and you get the Cia. Beaver said i thought it might be some kind of hoax for a while so i just thought i d Call the number. They said. This ii the Cia and i just said of " since they got the number two months ago Beaver and the two other ceo employed have become accustomed to gelling Cia Calls almost every Day sometimes twice a Day. . Board s Call to move King Holiday protested Albuquerque . A Leaden of a Public employees Union and civil rights activists Are calling Tor the resignations of Mem Bers of a state Board that moved the Date for celebrating Martin Luther King or s birthday. The legislature this year designated King s birthday As a Legal Holiday to be observed on the third monday in january. This month the state personnel Board voted to give state employees the Day off next year on dec. 23, rather than on Jan. 18. We Don t want the slate of new Mexico to replace the tute of Arizona Ai a stale ridiculed in the National press and by doonesbury car Toon strips around the country for rescinding the Martin Luther King Holiday Bill Lopez Union official said