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Son of president
was molested at7
by camp leader
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Rea
gan, son of President Reagan, says
he was sexually molested repeatedly
as a 7-year-old by a “father-figure 1 ’
day-camp leader.
In an outline of an autobiography
circulating in New York publishing
houses and obtained by the Asso
ciated Press on Thursday, Reagan
described a lonely and neglected
childhood in which he was emotion
ally unable to resist the molestation.
The president and Nancy Reagan
only learned of the molestation
when Michael Reagan and his family
visited them on Palm Sunday in Cali
fornia.
“The three of them went off for a
walk,” said Elaine Crispen, press sec
retary to Mrs. Reagan.“They had
never heard it before, that was the
first they knew of it. They feel ter
ribly, terribly sorry for him, that he
had to carry this for all these years.”
Reagan, 41, of Los Angeles, could
not be reached for comment, but his
publicist, Dale C. Olson, confirmed
in a telephone interview that Reagan
was working on the book.
“On the Outside Looking In” is to
be published by Zebra Publishing of
New York. Hollywood columnist Joe
Hyams is collaborating on the l>ook,
Olson said.
Olson said he and Reagan “had
not been totally aware” that copies of
the outline were circulating.
Penthouse magazine first revealed
the existence of the outline when it
released an article prepared for its
June edition on Thursday.
The outline presents the story of a
confused and neglected little boy,
adopted to please another child
Maureen Reagan, who had asked
a brother.
Alter the divorce of Reagan
actress Jane Wyman, the youth
them only on alternate weekei
the outline said.
As a result, from theagesof;
10, lie believed that a black fan
cook was his mother, he wrotein
outline.
He also wrote that a day-a
leader he idolized as a father-lip
molested him “for almost an
and once took photographs ofl
posing nude. He said he wasali
to tell anyone about the molesuti
“When Dad ran for president,!
had visions of him losing bee
those pictures taken 34 year
might turn up,” Reagan wrote
He broke the news to his fa
and stepmother when he, hist
Colleen, and his children, As
and Cameron, visited the R
ranch to celebrate Ashley’s bin
Crispen said.
The book outline also den,
1983 dispute Michael Reagan
with the Secret Service, which
the president and others thai
chael was a kleptomaniac At
time, reports of a rift in the
f amily were attributed simpln
president’s busy schedule.
His father had urged himtoi
psychiatrist but would not tel
why, according to the outline
Later, Michael Reaganrece
list of things he had purported!
len.
The president later apolof.
and for the second time ever,a
love you,” to his son, Reaganro
Peer review system
pits watchdog groups
against rural farmers
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rural
doctors squared off against govern
ment-funded watchdog groups
Thursday over a peer review system
they say is discriminatory and offers
no avenue of appeal.
Nearly 40 doctors have been bar
red from collecting Medicare pay
ments because peer review organiza
tions, or PROs, reported to the U.S.
Health and Human Services Depart
ment they were providing poor
medical care.
Seventy-five percent of those doc
tors are from rural areas and two-
thirds practice in rural Texas.
Rep. Ralph Hall, a member of the
Subcommittee on Health and the
Environment that held hearings
Thursday, said the sanction deci
sions are made without giving the
doctors adequate chance to defend
themselves in closed sessions.
In some states, physicians can’t
bring an attorney or expert wit
nesses to the PRO review sessions.
“This total lack of due process has
created a very serious concern
among the physicians, hospitals and
the Medicare patients of our coun
try,” said Hall, a three-term Demo
crat from Rockwall.
Several Texas doctors testifying
before the subcommittee echoed
Hall’s sentiments and said that in ad
dition to the lack of an appeal proc
ess, they fear being judged by big-
city doctors who don’t know the idi-
osyncracies of country medicine.
“I can say unequivocably that doc
tors in rural Texas are confused and
are scared about the process of ‘peer
review’ by the PRO,” said Dr. Billy
Bob Brame, a doctor from the West
Texas town of Eldorado and presi
dent of the Texas Medical Associa
tion.
"1 know that there are do®
West Texas who are airaidtos
patients to the hospital beam
the excessive scrutiny of the
cords by urban physicians
very high-tech practice penpett
Brame testified.
Inspector General Richai:
Kusserow told the committet
sanctioning a doctor wasthebs
sort under the PRO system
comes only after attempts toedJ
the doctor in question.
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lion Med Scare hospital disdfil
since the PRC) program was I*
in 1983, only 6,500 cases inv j*
2,500 doctors or hospitalshast^H
identified by PROs as involvinfi
medical care.
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were referred by PROs to the
of the inspector general forti
and further action,” Kussero
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department’s exclusion ofapt?
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one hospital.”
In another 22 cases, finest
vied, and in 16 cases the insfi
general threw out the PROsit
mendation. There are26case
ding.
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more flexibility. He has introdt
bill that would give any dotl«
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to appeal the decision in his to
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Illinois plans hospital win^
to help mentally ill youth:
DECATUR, Ill. (AP) — The pres
sures working on adolescents
around the nation are also at work in
Decatur, and a psychiatrist says they
can drive some young people into al
coholism or suicide.
Those pressures include single
parent families, the intense competi
tion to get into a good college and to
find a job after school.
Dr. Ira Brent, director of psychia
try at St. Mary’s Hospital, says more
young peopjle nationwide — and in
Decatur — are seeking psychiatric
helpj than ever before. To help meet
the growing need, St. Mary’s plans to
open an eight-room unit devoted ex
clusively to treating youth with men
tal illnesses.
The adolescent unit, to open in a
few months off a hallway near the
present psychiatric ward, will have
its own recreation area and pjossibly
a classroom where teachers from the
Decatur School District can work
with groups of students.
Brent and other local experts
have an arsenal of statistics to justify
~ the need for the unit.
“Adolescents have their own spe
cial needs which make itdiffqg
them to be mixed in with)*
Brent said. “There’s a highei®
divorce, more single fa:j|
There’s a breakdown in the '
family. There’s more mobi'
transiency.
“Kids struggle with pi/;
these days . . . that their®
never had to face. Kids are*
themselves over the issue offl
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get into college.”
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being a kid . . . drug use,dii
sexual activity. Kids see the:
as less in control. Parents see
out of control,” Bach said.
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