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Speakers at conference discuss impacts and possible solutions for deadly mistakes and near misses in hospitals
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5:15 PM
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Medical mistakes made in hospitals cause 98,000 deaths per year. Or four times that many? That is th...
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doctors
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health care
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Hospitals
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medical errors
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nurses
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The Adventures of the Purloined Bequest, the Resident Heiress, and the Hidden Hospital System
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8:16 AM
The game is afoot again. A series of recent articles in the media described a series of cases whose mysterious interrelationships Sherlock ...
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anechoic effect
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concentration of power
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Continuum Health Partners
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hospital systems
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mergers
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Mismanagement
Executive Compensation as "Legal Corruption" - and the Continuing Example of the Troubles of Wake Forest Baptist
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9:25 AM
"Legal corruption" was the description of current executive compensation practices appearing , of all places, in the Wall Street ...
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executive compensation
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perverse incentives
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Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
NYU Faculty Vote No Confidence in their President
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10:42 AM
Faculty at large American universities, in which most of the country's medical schools and teaching hospitals are embedded, are becoming...
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academic freedom
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accountability
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boards of trustees
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executive compensation
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free speech
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New York University
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transparency
Minimizing Legal Liability or Upholding the Mission? - the Markingson Case Redux
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12:04 PM
There are new, and troubling developments in the long running case of Dan Markingson, the psychiatric patient and research subject who commi...
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AstraZeneca
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atypical anti-psychotics
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conflicts of interest
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deception
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manipulating clinical research
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mission-hostile management
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research subjects
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University of Minnesota
More Cause for Hope - After Novartis Chairman's Rescinded Golden Parachute, Swiss Voters Give Control of Hired Executives' Salaries Back to Owners
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8:47 AM
Recently, we discussed the latest stupefyingly big golden parachute given to a departing pharmaceutical executive. Former Novartis CEO an...
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executive compensation
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government
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managers' coup d'etat
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Novartis
It is Harder to Run a Small Public Hospital System than California? - Deep Seated Myths and Logical Fallacies Underpinning Health Care Executive Compensation
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5:37 PM
Hospital executive compensation, the gift that keeps on giving... A Public Hospital CEO's Current Compensation A recent, somewhat obscu...
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hospital systems
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imperial CEO
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Not only may you not get to keep your plan under Obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor; there are reasons
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
Trying to Make Sense of the Covered California Numbers
I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
"If You Like Your Doctor You Will Be Able to Keep Your Doctor. Period"
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Small Group Health Insurance "Cancellations"––The Next Shoe to Drop But a More Complicated One
Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
Dried mussels: A little plate with 160 g of protein (plus some comments on high-protein low-carbohydrate dieting)
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ...
Humana allows policyholders to keep old plans without paying more; Anthem is still deciding
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
Beshear and two other Democratic governors say Obamacare is working in their states, and cite examples
Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...
Almost 1/4 of Ky. inmates have mental-health issue; lockups are becoming the 'new asylums,' Wall Street Journal says
Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
Beshear to study nursing-home staffing minimums, suggests homes' high liability costs are related to poorly ranked care
Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
Can a Statin Neutralize the Cardiovascular Risk of Unhealthy Dietary Choices?
The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...