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June 7, 1999 Issue

"I never deal with diseases; I deal with human beings. I address all their issues about life. I make them almost a relative."
--Dr. Saud A. Sadiq, from "The Best Doctors in New York"

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FEATURES
The Best Doctors in New York

It's back. New York's (and New York's) definitive, updated list of the city's best doctors, specialty by specialty (and now including the suburbs -- Westchester and Rockland counties, Long Island, southern Connecticut, and northern New Jersey). These 1,500 physicians, carefully culled from more than 15,000 nominated by their colleagues, will provide you with the best care available anywhere. (But only -- as several of the best doctors point out in the introduction to this special issue -- if you take being a good patient as seriously as you do finding the right doctor. That means being communicative, coming informed, and asking questions.) In addition, we present our second annual Hall of Fame: ten doctors who practice with a difference, whether sewing up Leo's hurt knee, jetting off to refugee camps in Uganda, or connecting with troubled kids on the Upper West Side.

GOTHAM
An upscale matchmaker works the charity circuit
GOTHAM STYLE Chic caftans, supple slip-ons

DEPARTMENTS
The City Politic
BY MICHAEL TOMASKY

Mrs. Clinton shows her hand

Media
BY MICHAEL WOLFF

The Times makes an uncharacteristically bold push into new media

The Underground Gourmet
BY JOSEPH O'NEILL

An East Village phoenix rises from the ashes, new and improved

MARKETPLACE
Best Bets
BY CORKY POLLAN

Reinventing the wineglass; expanding the party-dress palette

Smart City
BY STEPHANIE WILLIAMS

Low life: the best dives in which to bowl, shoot, and toss

Sales & Bargains
BY SHYAMA PATEL

Alternatives to an all-khaki, all-the-time, summer wardrobe

THE ARTS
Movies
BY PETER RAINER

Notting Hills princess-meets-pauper plot seems merely unreal

Books
BY WALTER KIRN

Francis Fukuyama foretells the return of goodness

Theater
BY JOHN SIMON

East Is East goes nowhere

Art
BY MARK STEVENS

Gustave Moreau's painted dreams -- visionary or kitsch?

Television
BY JOHN LEONARD

Hoop nightmares: revisiting That Championship Season

CUE
New York Magazine's weekly guide to entertainment and the arts.

Intelligencer
(Gossip)

Classifieds
Strictly Personals