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<p>For the past two years, <em>New York Times</em> reporter <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/national/bogdanich-bio.html">Walt Bogdanich</a> has written more about medical radiation than most reporters will in their entire careers. He has examined it from every possible angle, focusing on both the power and the peril of various radiation treatments.</p>

<p><p>If you are sent to live on the streets, it is for most people the same as being sent, without a mouth guard or helmet, into a boxing ring. A ring where the gong never sounds and there's no rope to mark the place where someone could take a swing and blow out your eye socket.</p><p>Doesn't matte

<p><p>Since it opened six<strong>ty</strong>&nbsp;years ago,&nbsp;<strong>St. Anthony's</strong>&nbsp;has gone through several menu styles and chefs. From visit to visit you never quite knew what you were going to get.</p><p>Located off the Plaza in&nbsp;<strong>Civic Center</strong>, the restaurant

<p>Older doctors should not lose their licenses just because they hit a target birthday. But should they have their skills regularly tested after a certain age?</p>

<p>Last week in <em>Career GPS</em>, the <em>ReportingonHealth</em> community shared its best health media in 2010. This week, we're highlighting awards to celebrate that work.</p>

<p>Although Doctors Behaving Badly tends to focus on exactly what you would expect, its mission is to make people aware of the many ways that patients are left unprotected.</p> <p>There are nearly 1 million licensed, practicing physicians nationwide. Antidote has no ability to count how many are “behaving badly,” but it is safe to say that only a slim minority are tainting the reputation of the medical community. Doctors who abuse, injure or kill patients are the surrogate markers for an illness in the physician discipline system. They are not the illness.</p>

<p>One of the biggest problems with public health care is knowing where to turn in order to gain reliable information that will lead to reasonable options for care. It's difficult to learn how to receive the proper services. Hollywood accurately portrays the masses sitting in the waiting room wa

<p>Medical boards from coast to coast are inconsistent, inefficient and ill equipped to monitor the hundreds of thousands of doctors licensed under their watch, Antidote’s investigation of every state board has found. There are some standouts, but, overall, they do a terrible job protecting patients and informing the public.</p> <p>It bears repeating that most doctors do a great job and are focused on one thing: helping their patients heal and lead healthier lives. The mission of this tour was to explore what happens to that minority of doctors who don’t follow the rules.</p>

<p>The final state in Antidote’s <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;oe=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=1… Behaving Badly tour</a> of state medical boards should have been <a href="../../../../../../../../blogs/wyoming-opens-arms-doc-run-criminal-past">Wyoming</a>.</p>