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<p>Parents of children with autism (or any other condition) may be reluctant to hand over medical records to a health writer. Physicians may say the records are confidential and that the patients shouldn’t be talking to a reporter all. Hospitals may invoke the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.</p>

<p>No good deed goes unpunished: a community backlash follows a Dallas Morning News hospital exposé. Plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Here are some quick reads for your Martin Luther King Jr. Day.</p>

About three years ago, Georgina González left her three siblings, three children, and three grandchildren in Puebla, México and immigrated to Fresno in search of better economic opportunities.
What she found here, though, was an opportunity to receive health care after she was diagnosed with breast

<p>Health writers too often take patient stories at face value and don't ask for medical records.</p>

<p>A new study of nutrition labeling at one fast food chain finds Americans just don't care, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>This week at&nbsp;Career&nbsp;GPS, we continue the conversation with Chris Seper to find out what journalists should expect when applying to and working in a startup environment.</p>

<p>Anyone who has written about a topic as emotional as autism knows that patients and their families can be both invaluable and unreliable.</p>

<p>As 2011 unfolds, I’d like to share some of my favorite health journalism – much but not all of it policy-related – from 2010. This is definitely not a best-of list, but rather journalism that can inspire and teach us.</p> <p>Here are my first five picks, in no particular order of importance. I’ll share the next five next week.</p> <p>Happy New Year!</p>

<p>Now that I've finished the last of the three fellowship stories I proposed six months ago, I'll take a moment to write about the lessons I have learned.</p>