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                        General Information 
                       

  1) Restrictions. Can you damage your computer? [2]*
     Can this program damage your computer in any way?
     The answer is no and it is briefly explained.

  2) How to contact the Author. [1]*
     The Author is open to any questions, scrutiny, debate, suggestion,
     critique or any reasonable reaction.

  3) What this package and simulator will do for you. [1]*
     Short description.



  4) What this package and simulator will NOT do for you. [1]*
     This single page summary cuts ahead of some of the potential
     misunderstandings.

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                    Learn about the Simulator 
                   

  5) Definition of the Simulator. [1]
     If you don't care about detailed descriptions, this single page
     defines what the Simulator is all about.

  6) Purpose of the Simulator [2-10]
     Read it first BEFORE you run the Simulator, then come back to it AFTER
     you have run it and it is time to interpret your findings.
     No "story". It is a "flowchart" like, step-by-step logical guide
     toward the road of reality. Not an easy reading.

  7) How the simulator works [1-16]
     The results of the Simulator are impressive, but worthless unless
     reliable and believable. This article explains in great detail the
     internal logical structure of the Simulator. The understanding of this
     article does NOT require any knowledge of computers, simulators or any
     technical matters, it is written in such a way that concentration and
     some logic is suffcient for understanding.

  8) Objective, Subjective, Data collection. [3]
     Another attempt to cut ahead of misunderstandings. The Author declares
     the articles to be his subjective opinion, while explaining why the
     Simulator is an objective entity.
     Under the same heading, the Author suggests where to collect data (for
     the Simulator) and what to do if it's not readily available.


  9) Technical description of the Simulator [13]*
     Not for the casual reader. It is for the computer programmer who is to
     verify the validity of the Simulator from a programming standpoint.

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                     AIDS epidemic related articles 
                    

 10) Quick, Basic Science Course (the fastest you ever had) [9]*
     Learn about viruses, the immune system and AIDS. Easy to Understand
     descriptions for people with no medical background.

 11) Take an AIDSpirin and call me when you found one. [174]
     This is the most important article of the Library.
     It starts like a "story", light and superficial, but later it grows
     increasingly complex. No stone remains unturned about AIDS. It is a
     very harsh critique of the present policies, and it offers
     construnctive alternatives and elaborates on them.

 12) How much is 3-2=? [12]*
     The actual title is too long to fit here. HIV+ health care worker or
     HIV+ patient. Is the danger of transmission the same? No, and this
     article explains it with a pinpoint accuracy.

 14) Micro Vocabulary [5]*
     Contains some special, medically related words, some words and
     expressions used by the Author, but not exactly in their traditional
     meaning. Small collection, but it can come handy. It is the same
     collection you can invoke with the F4 key during the simulation
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                            Miscellaneous 
                           

 16) Why did we get here? [5]*
     Although the HIV is the cause of the AIDS, the causes of the epidemic
     goes beyond the virus. Common sense and attempted humor

 17) Will there be a shortage of health care workers? [5]
     A Yes answer will yield a serious problem.
     A No answer will yield something even more serious.

 18) My nightmare [4]*
     Imagination on loose. Some thought provoking concepts.

 19) Last words [2]
     Final comments by the Author.
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                Articles independent from the AIDS project 
               
 This section can be considered as a "bonus". The Author also did research
 related to the health care cost problem. Articles 20-24 are all related to
 the health care cost crisis.
 The Author, while practicing OB-GYN in the Washington Metropolitan area,
 ran across the most incredible and unusual case (Article 21) which allowed
 him to enter the "twilight zone" of health care, where he met deception,
 lies, coercion, blackmail, bribe, even death threats, and an entire
 industry which exists for one purpose: to intercept health care money.
 That case triggered his deeper involvement with the health care issue.
 Articles 20 and 22 explores two major aspects of the health care cost
 problem. His work culminates in Article 24, which includes all the
 findings in the other articles, but Article 24 contains something which
 the other don't: a Solution. It took several years of exploration before
 he came up with a solution which is a totally new concept.

 20) Take an Aspirin and call me in 25 years. [81]*
     Written in 1988-90
     The legal profession triggered the change which may result in the
     deterioration of health care in U.S.A.

 21) The story of T.H. [37]*
     Written in 1987
     Not an article on its own merits. It is the full version of the T.H.
     case in Article 20, a real life soap opera.

 22) Take an Aspirin and call your insurance company in the morning. [28]*
     Written in 1991
     What the lawyers didn't finish up yet, the insurance companies might.
     This article are mostly notes of the Author about some of his rather
     "interesting" encounters with some insurance companies.

 23) "Doc Quixote". [21]*
     This article appeared in the American Medical News, in March 1989,
     ABOUT the Author. He did not just stand by, seeing all those
     destructive forces. The "story" made a local Washington D.C. paper and
     a year later the official publication of AMA.


 24) The REAL reasons behind the skyrocketing cost of health care. [87]
 Written in 1992
 America is struggling to fix the health care system. All participants are
 blaming one another. The government is trying to take over, quoting the
 cost crisis as a reason. The physician community failed to come up with a
 viable counter-plan. At the same time the government fails to understand
 how the cost crisis developed and they are tackling the problem from the
 wrong angle. This article analyses the history and development of the
 problem in great details. Finally it announces a plan which was never
 proposed by anyone else before. The Author claims and PROVES that it IS
 the "magic bullet". The article is not well written, but EVERYTHING is in
 it what one should know about the current state of the health care issue,
 including the real solution. Compressed versions of this article are
 available upon request from the Author


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