July 06, 2009
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Think about what it takes to obtain a medical license. Some states' licensing boards will rubber stamp a license from another state but others, like California's, require a lot of hoops.
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July 03, 2009
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Misadministration. When a physician has made a horrible mistake with wide-ranging ramifications, the terms "negligence," "malpractice" even "incompetence" might come to mind. Now this wonderful... more
July 02, 2009
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July 01, 2009
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Within hours of the news breaking about Michael Jackson's death, attention started to turn toward one of the only eyewitnesses to the event: his personal physician.
June 30, 2009
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June 29, 2009
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New York state has an interesting job that is foreign to most other states, the office of the Medicaid Inspector General. Lucky for health writers,... more
June 26, 2009
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June 24, 2009
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Robin Lowe went to the Sano Medical Clinic in Costa Mesa one June with what appeared to be an obvious and urgent problem. She had felt a lump in her left breast.
At 29, she was young to... more
June 22, 2009
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June 19, 2009
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My fellow contributing editor here at ReportingonHealth, Barbara Feder Ostrov, suggested I might be beating up unnecessarily on Stanford neurosurgeon... more
June 17, 2009
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When Stanford University neurosurgeon and amateur pilot Doyle John Borchers III (... more
June 15, 2009
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Devoted fans of Antidote no doubt read my interview with Mark Katches a few weeks... more
June 15, 2009
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Food is packaged with a veneer of sincerity. Contents are dutifully itemized along with tables showing the percentage of recommended nutrients, fat content, etc. But there is much that remains a... more
June 11, 2009
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The World Health Organization today declared swine flu to be the first global pandemic since 1968, raising its... more
