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Three Commentaries
The Memphis Daily News' Lindsay Jones turns her eyes on many topics in these commentaries. First, she writes about a woman who had brain surgery years ago, and her attempts to cope with the after-effects now she has no insurance coverage. Jones contrasts this with Governor Phil Bredesen's "illness from a suspected tick bite and his trip to the vaunted Mayo Clinic." Also, Jones writes of the midterm Senate race pitting Harold Ford, Jr. against Bob Corker; and also the experience of being a Wal-Mart shopper.
Tags: Harold Ford, Jr.; Bob Corker; Wal-Mart; governor Phil Bredesen; medical insurance; Kim Fields; cancer survivors; pre-existing conditions
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Home Health Care in Crisis:Criminal caregivers
The Record reports that "New Jersey has allowed (Alvest O'Neill) Williams and countless other thieves, drug dealers, and violent offenders to work as home health aides -- no questions asked. In nearly every county, The Record found criminals -- fully certified by the state -- working alone in the homes of cancer survivors, the elderly, and the infirm, their pasts hidden from vulnerable patients". "In a second major finding, Layton and Zambito tracked how a growing number of families, burdened by the enormous expense of home care, have turned to untrained and unlicensed aides."
Tags: CAR State legislation; PAC; Background checks; Criminals
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Death Sentence
Milwaukee magazine looks at the cases of woman whose pap smears had been repeatedly misinterpreted by Chem-Bio Corp, an Oak Creek medical lab. "Interviews and court records suggest that what happened to Dolores Geary and Karin Smith wasn't the result of simple mistakes. Instead, say their lawyers and survivors, both women died as a result of repeated and flagrant missteps by the laboratory and the doctors to whom they had entrusted their health and lives."
Tags: Gynecologists Cervical cancer Family Health Plan HMO specialists referrals managed health care
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Radiation Risks Revisited
Technology Review reports that "In the late 1970s, British epidemiologist Alice Stewart and her colleagues released a study claiming that workers exposed to low-level ionizing radiation at the U.S. government's Hanford nuclear weapons complex in Washington state had a heightened cancer risk. This troubling conclusion - with potentially far-reaching implications for radiation exposure standards, medical practices, and nuclear industry operations - ignited a major controversy....An analysis by Stewart and statistician George W. Kneale, her longtime collaborator, soon to appear in the 'American Journal of Industrial Medicine,' claims to further establish a connection between exposure of nuclear workers to supposedly safe doses of low-level ionizing radiation and the risk of contracting cancer..."
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Washington Post article examines the increase in breast cancer, which rose 7 percent in the period 1983-84; looks at causes, treatment and survivors, 1987.
Tags: Rovner breast cancer