61.   Local doctors feel the medical need is real.

62.   Local doctors, some of them voicing incredulity about the findings, took issue Wednesday with the conclusions being drawn from them.

63.   Local doctors say that many of their colleagues have fled or have been arrested, sometimes on charges of aiding the rebels.

64.   Naturally, they met online, through the Berkeley-based Well, where Rhine worked and Pack joined to find a local doctor.

65.   One source said that House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, has been wavering on the legislation because of the objections of local doctors.

66.   Other test patients are sent over by local doctors.

67.   One option for finding a local doctor is to visit the American Society for Bariatric Surgery Web site at www.asbs.org.

68.   She said she knows of no local doctors who offer the drug without also offering surgical abortions.

69.   So Dr. Andrew Seltzer, one of many local doctors and surgeons who routinely donate their services, is going to operate on his hip for free.

70.   Some local doctors and HMOs are willing to start a pilot telemedicine program, Arnold says.