Posts Tagged ‘News’

Wisconsin Health Information Exchange (WTN News)-Medical Quack

Friday, April 10th, 2009

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Patient Dumping Back in the News Hospital to Pay fine

Friday, April 10th, 2009

One more hospital pays a fine for this practice, but one of the most disturbing items in this article is the fact that the City Attorney’s office continues receiving reports that the practice of dumping patients is still being reported, so it leads one to think the problem has not been solved and there may still be some isolated cases still occurring. 
If so, with all the cameras we have now to record potential cases, it would appear it may (more…)

Senior Doctors: Drug allegations/convictions in the News

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

It appears tracking of narcotic prescription drugs is on the rise by police officials.  These were 3 different cases in 3 different locations this week.  The 4th article here involves a VA physician who didn’t keep adequate and/or fake records to get patients enrolled  in drug studies, of which we have been hearing quite a bit of in the news today about the accuracy and how they were conducted, as well completely duped records that were made (more…)