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Virginia hospital assailed for seeking court actions to strip patients of...
A Virginia hospital has found an eyebrow-raising solution to some of its struggles with elderly, poor, and sick patients who take up beds and medical resources that might generate more revenue and...
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The public’s health and safety sometimes find protections in the civil justice system and sometimes under regulators’ threat. Here’s hoping that whatever means are required, just and proper outcomes...
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A top U.S. health official can’t get his. Which is why we need records reforms.
Federal regulators may be on the brink of not only protecting but also advancing patients access and use of a key component of their care: their electronic health records. Or will bureaucrats fold up...
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University of Michigan doctor accused of decades of sexual misconduct
The University of Michigan is investigating allegations that Robert E. Anderson, former head of the university health service and physician to UM football teams coached by Bo Schembechler and Lloyd...
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U.S. botched testing. What about the next steps to fight Covid-19: tracing...
As state and local officials struggle with constituents restless with measures designed to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, the next key phases in the battle with the novel coronavirus may prove yet...
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Unchecked Covid-19 pandemic gives U.S. a new reason to hold its breath
Falsehoods, even when loudly repeated, do not magically become true. The Covid-19 pandemic rages across the United States, and the facts do not support in any way the myth that the nation is “rounding...
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Patients finally gaining new access to medical records and doctors’ notes
Millions of Americans may be finding that their doctors routinely refer to them with terms like SOB and BS. But patients will be better off with this knowledge, once they learn how to translate medical...
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UC offers $73-million settlement in class-action suit over abusive gynecologist
The University of California has offered to pay $73 million to settle with 5,000 women their class-action lawsuit asserting a staff gynecologist sexually abused them during medical procedures. This is...
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When end-of-life wishes get ignored, courts see another kind of malpractice
Many Americans took a good step for themselves and their loved ones after getting shocked by learning about treatments, like prolonged machine ventilation, that coronavirus patients may undergo. Not...
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USC to pay $1.1 billion to settle gynecologist’s hundreds of sex abuse cases
The University of Southern California apparently has set a record — one which parents should pray no college has reason to challenge and for which the educators and leaders at the Los Angeles campus...
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State license boards warn doctors of consequences for sexual misbehavior
Although state licensing boards have taken more than their fair share of criticism for failing to discipline bad doctors as quickly and severely as circumstances merit, regulators appear to be trying...
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Sexually transmitted infections spike for sixth year in a row, CDC reports
While the coronavirus pandemic savaged the country, another infection spiked, too, with nasty consequences: The nation set new records in 2019 and likely in 2020 for cases of sexually transmitted...
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Investigators rip University of Michigan for failing to halt decades of...
Big Blue has hundreds of reasons to be red-faced about a 240-page, independent inquiry that offers disturbing, black-and-white evidence that ought to be heeded by higher educational institutions...
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Covid shots are voluntary. Mostly. But pressures are growing on unvaccinated.
In the crunch to quell the coronavirus pandemic and to do so by getting as many people as possible their protective shots, public health officials consistently have stressed a big V in the national...
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