Skip to content

Site Navigation

  • The Atlantic
  • PopularLatestNewsletters

    Sections

    • Politics
    • Ideas
    • Fiction
    • Technology
    • Science
    • Photo
    • Business
    • Culture
    • Planet
    • Global
    • Books
    • Podcasts
    • Health
    • Education
    • Projects
    • Features
    • Family
    • Events
    • Shadowland
    • Progress
    • Newsletters
    • Explore The Atlantic Archive
    • Play The Atlantic crossword

    The Print Edition

    Latest IssuePast Issues
    Give a Gift
  • Quick Links
    • Dear Therapist
      Dear Therapist
    • Crossword Puzzle
      Crossword Puzzle
    • Magazine Archive
      Magazine Archive
    • Your Subscription
      Your Subscription
  • Popular
  • Latest
  • Newsletters
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
September 1986 Issue
September 1986 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Women in the Work Force
    George Guilder
  • Sex in Our Time
    Phyllis Rose
  • The Triumph of the Nerds
    Lloyd Rose
  • Alaska: Southeast to McKinley
  • Impostors
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Men's Lives
    Phoebe-Lou Adams

Breaking:Manhattan grand jury indicts former President Donald Trump

The Law: Trust Versus Antitrust

No one wants bad doctors, but procedures for barring them from practice may run afoul of federal law

By Katrin Bridget Snow
September 1986 Issue
Saved Stories