Joe Rubin is a Sacramento-based investigative reporter and a fellow with USC Annenberg’s Center for Health Journalism. His reporting on workplace exposures to lead in California has appeared in Capital & Main.
Patient Safety and Ethics
This story was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2018 California Fellowship.
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