Mr. Gilman, who had had heart trouble for some time, died of a heart attack, said Dr. Jeffrey S. Borer, a cardiologist who was his longtime physician and a friend.

"I've not withdrawn from the Open," Connors said tonight after receiving three hours of treatment at the Manhasset office of his longtime physician, Dr. Gary Wadler.

But under Mr. Clinton's plan, most doctors would be affiliated with a health-maintenance organization or a similar network of health-care providers, and elderly patients may well be able to stay with their longtime physicians.

Frank Marrero had consulted the family's longtime physician, Dr. Robert A. Varady, about Efrain.

His longtime physician prescribed the drug as a 72d birthday present, he said.

Alert Bay Airport was opened in honour of longtime physician and surgeon and one-time mayor Dr. Harold Jackson Pickup (died February 11, 1996).

They talked to the father's longtime physician, who agreed after much deliberation to prescribe enough Ativan, a sedative, so that the older man would be asleep when the oxygen in the bag ran out.

As managed care forces many people to abandon their longtime physicians, and technology makes medicine feel ever colder and less human, patients say they feel increasingly cut off from decisions about their own care.

Dr. Du, a traditional Chinese herbal medicine doctor in Beijing and Hulan's mother's longtime physician, had recently taken over Hulan's care.

Concluding that he had not been in the area long enough to protest, Lanier urged Dr. Tom Wright, a longtime local physician, to apply for membership at the club.