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<p>It's all hospitals and doctors in today's <em>Daily Briefing</em>:<br />

<p>I was a bit torn when trying to figure out how to approach this piece. A reader emailed me about <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harmon-leon/is-profit-behind-dermatol_b_6… article in the Huffington Post</a>, and there is so much wrong with it that I felt overwhelmed. My solution is to focus on a few of the problems that can help illuminate broader points.</p>

<p>Investigative journalist-turned-GIS expert <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ann-moss-joyner/4/817/415">Ann Moss Joyner</a> has made some pretty persuasive maps in her time. There was the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/ReportingonHealthorg/90860628845#!/photo…; showing how an Ohio community’s water plant just couldn’t seem to serve a historically black neighborhood just hundreds of feet away, even as the plant’s water lines snaked miles to other, white neighborhoods.

<p>If Wednesday is leaving you in an intellectual slump, here are some links that will help you understand and challenge the news:<br /><br /><strong>Sun Scare?</strong> Harmon Leon at the <em>Huffington Post</em> questions the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harmon-leon/is-profit-behind-dermatol_b_6… of dermatologists</a> -- and lets four dermatologists examine his moles in the process.<br />

<p>Medical malpractice cases can dredge up some frightening examples of human behavior.</p> <p>Few examples could be uglier than the Ku Klux Klan.</p> <p>Dr. Joseph Dickstein, a family doctor in Chicago, had three patients complain that they suffered complications following surgical procedures he performed. The allegations were serious enough that Dickstein lost his hospital privileges.</p> <p>Perhaps he was feeling desperate then when he was sued by Karla Morgan.</p>

<p>This Sunday evening, we began our week-long National Health Journalism Fellowships, which brings together 20 journalists to discuss, debate and learn about health journalism topics. At our keynote dinner, we had a chance to meet and hear from our National Health Journalism Fellows and the grantees of our Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism who had joined us from across the country.</p>

<p>Get your week rolling with these tidbits from around the web:<br /><br /><strong>Live Now:</strong> <em>Forbes</em>' Matthew Herper is <a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/sciencebiz?s=avandia">blogging the Food and Drug Administration’s Avandia review</a> in real time.<br />

<p>Former health journalism Fellows Suzanne Bohan and Sandy Kleffman, colleagues at the Bay Area News Group, teamed up to write <a href="http://www.contracostatimes.com/life-expectancy">Shortened Lives</a>, a groundbreaking series on how where you live affects your health – and won a <a href="http://www.whca.net/2010windocs.htm">White House Correspondents’ Association award</a> for their efforts.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.policylink.org/site/c.lkIXLbMNJrE/b.5137443/apps/s/content.a… Lee</a> knows firsthand the fallout from living in an area without proper access to fresh, healthy food: She drives past three South Los Angeles grocery stores offering expired tortillas and wilted

<p>"We're homogenizing the way the world goes mad," Ethan Watters, author of "Crazy Like Us," today told USC/California Endowment <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/fellowships/seminars/national-health-j… Health Journalism Fellows</a> gathered in Los Angeles this week.</p>