100 most powerful. Familiar legislators and policymakers dominate the top of Modern Healthcare's second annual ranking of the most influential people in healthcare, but plenty of new names fill out the list. See who's in and who's out.

Our second annual ranking of the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare has quite a few surprises. Readers nominated and voted for the people who move and shake the healthcare industry. The 2003 list of the Most Powerful has 52 names absent from last year's ranking, including a new No.

Healthcare hath no fury. Power of religion and might of physicians join forces to prevent joint venture of faith-based Baptist Health, for-profit Triad Hospitals.

The power of religion and the might of physicians seem to have joined forces against Baptist Health System's proposed merger with for-profit Triad Hospitals. Doctors and employees of Baptist facilities such as Montclair Baptist Medical Center, left, demanded that the system remain faith-based and under local control.