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<p>Here's what we're reading and listening to today:</p> <p><strong>Prison Health:</strong> In our <a href="../../../../../../../../blogs/reporting-prison-health-care-live-chat-kpccs-julie-small">online chat TODAY at 11 a.m. PST</a>., get tips on covering prison health from KPCC’s Julie Small, whose <a href="http://www.scpr.org/specials/prisonmedical/"&gt;“Prison Affliction” investigation</a> has been airing this week.</p>

<p><!--[endif]--></p> <p>Here's what we're reading and listening to today:</p> <p><strong>Prison Health:</strong> KPCC‘s Julie Small talks <a href="../../../../../../../../blogs/qa-kpccs-julie-small-investigating-prison-health-care">about how she reported her “Prison Affliction”</a> series airing this week. Please join us for ReportingonHealth’s <a href="../../../../../../../../blogs/reporting-prison-health-care-live-chat-kpccs-julie-small">online chat with Julie</a> Thursday at 11 a.m. PST.</p>

<p><span>Years ago, while working on a street&nbsp;outreach program feeding the&nbsp;homeless, I observed that virtually every one of our clients was a smoker. (In fact, researchers now&nbsp;estimate that about 94% of the North American homeless population&nbsp;smoke).

<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>