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<p>Interviewing scientists, researchers and health care professionals can be challenging: reporters walk a fine line between representing their work accurately and applying appropriate, analytical skepticism. Get interviewing tips from <em>Career GPS</em>.</p>

<p>After being busted for dispensing prescriptions over the Internet and providing poor medical care to his patients, Dr. Stephen Hollis says he still maintains a thriving eye surgery practice. He talks about his past and present in a surprisingly candid interview.</p>

<p>Shouldn't health insurers be celebrating the 16 million potential new patients being added to the rolls? Maybe not...</p>

<p>How did we get to the point where we actually pay popular doctors more for our health care? No such system exists in any other professional or non-professional field. You can’t even pay your plumber less if she has a lower customer satisfaction score.</p>

<p>The CDC "is prepared" for a zombie apocalypse, hospitals exaggerate the safety of robot surgery, emergency room closings and more from our Daily Briefing.&nbsp;</p>

<p>A doctor busted for prescribing drugs for an Internet pharmacy talks about how and why he did it.</p>

<p>Big health policy changes amid California budget woes, ob-gyns refuse overweight patients, and news on Morgellons, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>A journalist examines the state of health in his home town of Gary, Ind. and finds that his coverage sparks community-wide conversation and change.</p>

<p>As public safety-net hospitals start to prepare for health reform, they'll need to help their patients find their way in a far different, and likely politically noisy, health care landscape. Here are some questions you should be asking now.</p>

<p>Melatonin brownies, measles on the rise worldwide, and nursing homes that don't want to insurer their employees, plus more in our Daily Briefing.</p>