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>DRKOOP.COM IN INTENSIVE CARE >The DrKoop.com online health care site may not be able to survive more than >four or five months because lower-than-expected advertising revenue has put >a great strain on the resources of the Austin, Texas company named after its >co-founder C.Everett Koop, the former U.S. Surgeon General. With an >understandable inability to refrain from describing the situation using >medical terms, Jupiter Communications analyst Claudine Singer says, "It's a >patient on the operating table that's gone into heart failure. The fact >that they have less than five months in cash and had to restructure these >deals and sell so much of themselves in order to stay afloat suggests that >they are in the death throes." DrKoop.com has already sold 10% of the >company to America Online because it could not otherwise afford to pay AOL >to advertise its offerings. (AP/New York Times 25 Apr 2000) >http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/biztech/articles/26koop.html http://www.newsscan.com/ janet paterson 53 now / 41 dx / 37 onset a new voice: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ 613 256 8340 PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario Canada K0A 1A0