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What are you hiding from patients in their medical records?
Many a physician is understandably apprehensive about entering the brave, new world of "meaningful use" of EMRs. After all, it's not easy to change the way you've done things for years. What they may
Doctor who traded painkillers to drug addict for sex has license pulled
A well respected University of Washington doctor had his medical license suspended this week and is the target of a criminal investigation after allegedly trading OxyContin tablets for sex with a
Hospitals care for hundreds of abandoned Medicaid patients
The nursing homes that reject hundreds of debilitated low-income Medicaid patients claim that they are "unable to safely meet the patients' needs," but an ongoing investigation by the Seattle Times
Study: Some safety-net hospitals putting income over mission
In today's brutally-competitive hospital marketplace, every hospital has to focus on finding profitable services to deliver and minimizing bad debt. Unfortunately, being profit-driven can sometimes
