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<p><em>Originally posted on <a href="http://www.docgurley.com/2010/02/18/haiti-day-two/">Doc Gurley: Posts from an Insane Healthcare System</a>.</em></p>

<p><em>Originally posted on <a href="http://www.docgurley.com/2010/02/17/haiti-journey-clinic-time-begins/">… Gurley: Posts from an Insane Healthcare System</a>.</em></p>

<p>Dr. Conrad Murray made his first mistake when he signed on to be Michael Jackson’s personal physician.</p> <p>Perhaps the task was doomed for any doctor, but Murray was particularly ill equipped to deal with the King of Pop’s concoction of quirks and cravings. Murray was operating well outside of

<p>We’re Number 6! Hurray!</p> <p>There has been quite a flurry of quick-hit news stories about the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s <a href="http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/">health rankings of the nation’s counties</a>. Apparently, at one point on the day they were released, “county health rankings” was the top search term in Google News.</p> <p>Too bad a number of these stories were boosterish (or defensive) pieces, devoid of context, about where individual counties ranked in comparison to the one next door.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/users/docgurley">Dr. R. Jan Gurley</a>, better known as Doc Gurley, wears many hats. She is a physician at the San Francisco Department of Public Health homeless clinic, but also a blogger and columnist.</p>

<p>Mental Health America’s Media Awards recognize excellence in reporting and portrayals of mental health issues from the previous year in news and feature stories and the entertainment media, on the national, state, local and student levels, and in print, online, wire, radio, television and film.</p>

<p><em>Originally posted on <a href="http://www.docgurley.com/2010/02/16/haiti-journey-hitting-the-ground/">… Gurley: Posts from an Insane Healthcare System</a>.</em></p>

<p>The physicians in the <a href="http://www.eyespecialtygroup.md/">Eye Specialty Group</a> in Memphis thought that their partner, <a href="http://health.state.tn.us/licensure/Practitioner.ASP?prof=1606&amp;licn…. Seth Yoser</a>, was faking out patients.</p>

<p>Veteran journalist Dan Weintraub today launches <a href="http://www.healthycal.org/">a new website</a> dedicated to helping Californians better understand and talk about public health and community health, broadly defined. Supported by <a href="http://www.calendow.org/">The California Endowment</a>, the state’s largest health philanthropy (which also supports ReportingonHealth), <a href="http://www.healthycal.org/">HealthyCal.org</a&gt; will also examine land use, transportation, poverty, food and criminal justice issues as they relate to health.

<p><em>Originally posted on <a href="http://www.docgurley.com/2010/02/15/haiti-journey-carry-the-world-in-a-… Gurley: Posts From an Insane Health Care System</a>.</em></p>