Med-Alert!

Is the cost of keeping up your health insurance getting you down? Paying too much for too little coverage? Think our health-care system is going to hell? Is that what's ailing you, Bunky? Well, take heart. There are hidden benefits if you happen to receive medical care from one of the women on these and the following pages. It has been nearly a decade since we scoured the halls of medicine to find America's most lovely angels of mercy (Women in White, Playboy, November 1983), and one similarity between then and now is that we have found more gorgeous women than we have room to picture. We also discovered some changes in nursing. Back then, more nurses talked about stress and burnout than the women we interviewed this year, many of whom intend to pursue advanced degrees and open their own clinics or home-care services. Oh, yes, and this time we have not only nurses but a doctor. Say ahh. Take your medicine.