The Best Yet • Thank you for the excellent September issue. The best!!! Evelyn VanKemseke, President/CEO Shawnee Community Services

Forefront of Medical Technology • I recently received the September 2000 issue of Ingram's Magazine and included was the special medical edition. I wanted to congratulate you and your staff on an excellent performance and the quality was exemplary. Magazines, such as Ingram's, only further the success of the Kansas City market place and with health care at such a crucial time and being a political year; your magazine brought out the best and in the forefront of medical technology.

Congratulations once again to you and your staff and I wish you the best in the future. James Mirable, MD. F.A.C.O.G For Women Only

In the best interest • My compliments on your healthcare edition. The Life Sciences concept is complex, as you pointed out, but your exciting presentation was a great service to readership.

I, especially, want to be supportive of the story about Dennis McClatchy. You have shown important sensitivity to another complex issue - the unpredictable and counter-productive air of suspicion surrounding relationships between physicians and hospitals in a community.

This is a landmark case in Missouri that may well become the province of the Supreme Court. Hopefully, those with superior wisdom will decide if healthcare moves forward in a time when we are so desperately in need of the strongest search for solutions - in the best interest of the patients. Deborah Jantsch, MD, MBA Immediate past president Metropolitan Medical Society of Greater Kansas City

MD Equity • I hope you will include some of the other specialties represented in Kansas City. There are after all, twenty-four different medical specialties, including psychiatry and the three preventive medicine specialties, which are not high income, new-Porsche-every-year type practices. Perhaps you might consider some of these other fine physicians we have in town. Allen J. Parmet MD Trans World Airlines, Inc.

Plight of an Honest Person • I wanted to commend you on the excellent, if not sad, story about Dennis McClatchey. I don't know Dennis, but it reminded me of the unfortunate plight of another honest person (my father) who got caught in the ugly, tangled web of government rules and regulations (the EPA in my father's case).

For Dennis, I do hope that 9 bright minds in Washington D.C. do save him. In the meantime, keep up the great writing Steve Gershon