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Medical Rebels
Public discontent with corporate medicine continues to grow and healthcare professionals have been crossing the line into subtly and overtly illegal acts--from manipulation of the system and defiance of laws they deem unjust to fraud and threats of violence--in defense of their patients.
Tags: healthcare workers; public health professionals; managed-care industry; healthcare professionals; HMOs; lawbreaking
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BioPulse Clinic Shut Down
The story looks into the "medical" practices of BioPulse International, a company that offers alternative treatments to cancer patients in its Tijuana clinic. Reports from respected medical professionals and also from patients that followed the treatments signal that, despite the promises of the BioPulse doctors and the money the patients paid, their condition was unchanged if not worse. A sustained PR campaign (with what now seams misleading information) has also boosted share prices of the company. Following the article Mexican authorities have closed the clinic and the US Federal Trade Commission opened an investigation.
Tags: BioPulse; biotechnology; cancer; alternative treatments; cancer vaccine; insulin induced coma; FTC; Tijuana; Liviakis Financial Communications
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Deja's View: In a Poor Baby's Fight to Survive, a Parable Of a Medicaid HMO; An ICU Works Its Wonders, Monitors Patrol the Ward, And the Tension Crackles; When Discharge Is a Setback
The Wall Street Journal tells the story of Deja Donegan, a five-week-old preemie born to a single mother on welfare. The story of Deja serves to illustrate a large issue facing the medical community today: health professionals are spending millions of dollars to "try to make a dent in the distressingly high infant-mortality rate among African-Americans," but are under tremendous amounts of pressure from HMOs to discharge those babies as soon as their condition improves. This is a particularly grave problem because many of the babies treated come from lower income homes. When the babies are released -- sometimes earlier than the doctors would prefer -- they are often not going to well-equiped, warm homes. This can cause these million-dollar babies to have more medical problems later in life.
Tags: HMOs; preemies; health care; babies; medical technology
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Doctors Credentials
There's a lot of information about bad doctors scattered around county courthouses, state regulatory offices and professional associations. There is even a federal databank that compiles the results of medical malpractice lawsuits and disciplinary actions before state agencies and hospital boards. But access to the federal databank is tightly restricted, largely through the efforts of the American Medical Association. It is not available to the people who need it most. As a result of these restrictions, people looking for a family doctor or for a specialist have no way to tell which doctors have been sued or disciplined for poor medical practice.
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When Foreign Adoption Goes Wrong
Six years ago, Clevelander Margaret Cole started an agency that has grown to be a major player in foreign adoption. But Cole is facing accusations from parents and professionals who say the agency provides flawed medical records and limited support.
Tags: Orphanages; International
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HMO doctors
Minnestoa HMOs claim to provide better value to their patients through their own screening of doctors. KSTP-TV finds that this process does not go beyone what the state is already doing and HMO patients are never informed if their doctor had a serious disciplinary action in his/her professional history.
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Thousands of medical professionals use Federally guaranteed student HEAL loans to help them ocver the high cost of Medical School. Most of these professionals go on to repay those loans, but many don't, leaving taxpayers stuck with the bill. KNXV-TV obtained a list from Federal officials listing more than 100 Arizona residents who defaulted, and tracked many of them down. (Feb. 24, 1995)
Tags: Heinbaugh Matthews Student loans Contest entry 8 pgs. TAPE
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The Brotherhood. Medical Misconduct and the Code of Silence
The three-day series focused on the effects of the medical profession's code of silence regarding misconduct among doctors and other health professionals. The investigation showed how doctors, nurses and other health care professionals attempt to avoid accountability for their actions by protecting friends, punishing whistle-blowers, lying to licensing boards, concealing mistakes from patients, misleading state inspectors and exploiting loopholes in the regulation of the medical profession.
Tags: Kauffman The untold toll of medical errors Contest entry
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The Gulf War Comes Home: Sickness spreads, but the Pentagon denies all.
The Progressive looks at the life of Gulf War veterans. The Gulf War Syndrome, or Desert Fever as it is often called Britain, is a set of some four dozen disabling, sometimes life-threatening, medical conditions that afflict thousands of soldiers who fought in the war, as well as their offspring, their spouses, and medical professionals who treated them
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Cutting Costs - or Quality?
The Washington Post Weekly reports that "as cost-conscious insurers transform the health care system, some experts are applauding them for bringing greater efficiency to medicine. But many patients and medical professionals...argue that the system is cutting corners as well as costs..."