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<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>Uninsured</strong>: More than 50 million Americans have no health insurance, according to new U.S. Census data. Kaiser Health News has a <a href="http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2010/September/16/uninsur… roundup of the media coverage</a>.</p>

<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>Mental Illness:</strong> Is it <a href="http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2010/09/15/julian-sheather-i-want-to-be-bipola… fashionable to be bipolar</a>? British Medical Journal blogger Julian Sheather investigates.</p>

<p>When Dr. Harrell Robinson walked into the surgical suite to start a liposuction procedure on Maria Garcia he was already in a world of trouble.</p>

<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>Nutrition:</strong> Another label to remember when you go to the supermarket: “corn sugar” – that’s apparently what <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/a-new-name-for-high-fructose-c… corn syrup makers want to call their product now</a>. Surprisingly, high-fructose corn syrup isn’t as nutritionally evil as it’s been made to be, the New York Times’ Tara Parker-Pope reports.</p>

<p>Here’s what we’re reading today:</p> <p><strong>Outliers:</strong> A cautionary tale for health journalists: GoozNews’ Merrill Goozner details how <a href="http://www.gooznews.com/node/3431">an error of adjustment in the Dartmouth Atlas</a> skewed media coverage of supposedly sky-high leg amputation rates in McAllen, Texas.</p> <p><strong>Mobile Health:</strong> NetworkWorld’s Paul McNamara <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/66025">takes issue with a new survey</a> showing that 40 percent of us would pay for health care apps or services on our mobile devices.</p>

<p>If you were going to make a bet on which doctor lost his license in Minnesota, who would you choose?</p> <p>The doctor who didn’t pay his taxes?</p> <p>The doctor who repeatedly had female patients undress in front of him, asked them to assume unusual positions while undressed and then touched their genitals without explaining why?</p> <p>If you chose the tax laggard, you win. If you are a female patient in Minnesota, you may be losing.</p>

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<p>Maria Garcia smoked.</p> <p>That was her one big vice, according to her brother and her estranged husband.</p> <p>This otherwise healthy 39-year-old visited the doctors at Hills Surgical Center in Anaheim because she didn’t like the way she looked. To remedy that, the surgeons scheduled a series