I have reported on health for most of my career. My work as an investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register exposed problems with the fertility industry, the trade in human body parts and the use of illegal drugs in sports. I helped create a first-of-its-kind report card judging hospitals on a wide array of measures for a story that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. I was one of the lead reporters on a series of stories about lead in candy, a series that also was a finalist for the Pulitzer.For the Center for Health Journalism (previously known as Reporting on Health), I have written about investigative health reporting and occasionally broke news on my column, Antidote. I also was the project editor on the Just One Breath collaborative reporting series.  These days, for the University of Washington, I now work as the Executive Director for Insitutue for Health Metrics and Evaluation's Client Services, a social enterprise. You can follow me on Twitter @wheisel.

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Q&A with Thomas Sullivan: Part 2: Medical education companies don't deserve media abuse

<p><a href="http://policymed.typepad.com/about.html">Thomas Sullivan</a> writes the <a href="http://www.policymed.com/">Policy and Medicine</a> blog. He also runs <a href="http://www.rockpointe.com/">Rockpointe Corporation</a>, a medical education company that works with nonprofits and for-profits to create continuing medical education (CME) programs. As company-sponsored CME and ghostwriting by companies has come under fire, Sullivan has become an outspoken advocate for medical education firms.</p>

Doctors Behaving Badly: Doctor accused of stealing a dying police officer's watch

<p>Seeing Dr. Cleveland Enmon's alleged misdeeds, retold on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6wleqQ_M3M">nightly news</a>, prompts a double take. A doctor? In a life or death situation? Stole a patient's watch? And the patient was a cop?</p> <p>Enmon <a href="http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090929/A_NEWS/909… arraigned</a> last week on grand theft charges in Stockton, Calif., for allegedly swiping a very pricey watch off the wrist of retired Manteca police officer Jerry Kubena.</p>

National pathology firm ignores state licensing laws and is rewarded in state after state

<p><a href="http://www.gipath.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id…. Patrick Dean</a> has pulled off a magic trick to make Houdini proud.</p>

<p>The founder and president of <a href="http://www.gipath.com/">GI Pathology</a>, a national testing laboratory based in Memphis, Dean has practiced medicine without a license in at least two states. Practicing without a license is often a career killer for a physician. Not so with Dean.</p>

Doctors Behaving Badly: Faith Healer Finally Steps Outside Medical Board's Good Graces

<p>When medical board investigators questioned Dr. Robbi Borjeson about what she had done to treat a patient suffering from a severe case of diabetes, she responded: "I prayed over him."</p> <p>Borjeson had visited the patient's home in January 2000, where she found him complaining of "fatigue, weight loss, increased thirst, increased urination and sores on his tongue," according to the <a href="http://azmd.gov/GLSuiteWeb/Repository/0/0/5/2/6b70e0e9-37cf-4288-a763-b… Medical Board</a>. She told him take some vitamins.</p>