Two letters to the editor address the WSU-DMC contract negotiations. In one, a Detroit resident expresses concern about the possible loss of "valuable services given to us by Wayne State University doctors." She urges DMC CEO Mike Duggan to "please settle the differences for the good of the people who depend on your services." The other, from Dr. Edmund Barbour, president of the Wayne County Medical Society, urges that practicing physicians be seated at the negotiating table along with the administrators and mediators who are doing the negotiating. "The physician community has a great stake in getting a positive outcome," he writes. "Detroit is not an island in health care. We are a community of physicians treating a region, and WSU is a community institution."