Insights

<p>If you think you speak a language, and you weren't born speaking it, you *don't* really know it.</p>

<p>A pilot-"cardiologist" is found to lack a medical degree, and more surprises from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>An accurate curriculum vitae for Dr. Louis John Del Giorno would show a 20-year history of missed diagnoses, multiple overdoses and avoidable patient deaths.</p> <p>In that time, medical boards have documented lapses that have led to injuries or deaths in 35 patients, and those are just the ones the regulators caught.</p>

<p>Andy Miller used his own money to launch the nonprofit website&nbsp;Georgia Health News&nbsp;last month. He's now in the midst of seeking foundation grants and donations. This week at&nbsp;<em>Career GPS</em>, Miller straightforwardly answers some questions about developing his new media venture.</p>

<p>Today on the&nbsp;<em>Daily Briefing</em>, deeper reading for your weekend.</p>

<p>It’s not often that a veteran physician pleads poverty. Once a doctor gets through residency and spends a few years establishing a practice, patient billings tend to provide a good living. That money can dry up, though, if you are caught committing insurance fraud by federal investigators and sent to prison.</p>

<p>Today's&nbsp;<em>Daily Briefing</em>&nbsp;picks are about cost of care and quality of care, veteran health and reader feedback.</p>

<p>When it comes to talking about America’s rising health care costs, many fingers have been pointed at pharmaceutical companies, malpractice lawyers, health insurers and patients themselves. Dr. Neel Shah wants another group to start thinking about its own role in driving up health costs - rank and file doctors. Physicians simply aren’t trained to think about how the treatment decisions they make affect what patients are going to pay.</p>

<p>Are mini-med health plans really such a bad option for low-wage workers? Answers and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Jonathan Watts arrived in China in 2003 after a distinguished career covering Japan for the Guardian in London. He was filling very big shoes, taking over for <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2007/jun/03/johngittings">John Gittings</a>, who had written about China since the Cultural Revolution. Watts quickly established himself as a clear-eyed observer of the massive changes under way economically, politically and culturally. In 2008, he took a break to write a book about the environmental and health effects of China’s rapid growth.</p>