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<p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Speed_Limit_60…; width="100" height="128" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" /></p><p>At what age is a woman no longer at risk with a doctor who has been disciplined for “inappropriate conduct” with female patients?</p><p>The Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners sets the age limit at 60.</p>

<p>Prison health care in California costs about $2.5 billion per year, but the quality of that care has been so abysmal over the years that a federal judge in 2002 forced California to give up control of its prison health services to <a href="http://www.cphcs.ca.gov/">a federal receiver</a>. Eight y

<p><em>In response to </em><em><a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/blogs/so-you-want-write-book">CareerGP… So you want to write a book?</a></em></p>

<p>A few weeks ago a young woman was admitted to the hospital with a raging fever, excessive urination and back pain. I prescribed an antibiotic for a kidney infection, and over the next several days I watched her improve and go home. As a doctor, I could see the impact that I had made.</p>

<p>This review was first published by <a href="http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2010/07/13/the-religi… Public Square</a>.</p> <p><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195392981?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwzocalorg…;

<p>Here’s what we’re reading and listening to today:</p> <p><strong>Healthy Places:</strong> Los Angeles is using some of its stimulus money <a href="http://www.healthycal.org/local-grants-will-aim-to-transform-communitie… make low-income neighborhoods healthier places to live</a> by improving parks, creating community gardens and improving school lunches among other projects, reports Megan Baier, a correspondent for <a href="http://www.healthycal.org/local-grants-will-aim-to-transform-communitie… California</a>.</p>

<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>Hospital Bribery?</strong> A California man has <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487044761045754399937903814… charged with bribery</a> for trying to entice a hospital employee to accept would-be doctors into hard-to-get medical residency slots, according to a story in The Wall St. Journal. He allegedly paid the employee $15,000 as incentive. His lawyer calls him a “very generous guy.”</p>

<p>First, it was the opening of <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/baycitynews/a/2010/07/17/K… Kroger in East Oakland</a>. Now it's the announcement that <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/19/BU851EVR2J… Fresh and Easy is heading to the Bayview</a>. What exactly, you may be asking yourself, makes these stories major headline news?</p> <p>And why is a doctor spending time writing about grocery stores too?</p>

<p>You know you want take the long journey of writing a book, but how do you take the first step? Here are some top tips for getting published from three health writers who have been there.</p>

<p><em>The American Prospect</em>’s co-editor Paul Starr spoke with Antidote last week about the magazine’s <a href="http://www.prospect.org/cs/special_report">special report on health reform</a>.