On Friday, May 13, 2005, at 01:30 PM, Mike Weis wrote:
> One factor I think cannot be ignored, and I have no hard evidence for
> this
> opinion, is the malpractice issue. There has been so much published
> about
> the cholesterol link to CHD that any doctor who went against the
> conventional wisdom is opening him or herself up to certain litigation
> if
> something should happen to one of their patients.
It happened to Atkins, at least once. I don't know the outcome.