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Speakers at conference discuss impacts and possible solutions for deadly mistakes and near misses in hospitals

Posted by | 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...

The Adventures of the Purloined Bequest, the Resident Heiress, and the Hidden Hospital System

Posted by | 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 ...

Executive Compensation as "Legal Corruption" - and the Continuing Example of the Troubles of Wake Forest Baptist

Posted by | 9:25 AM
"Legal corruption" was the description of current executive compensation practices appearing , of all places, in the Wall Street ...

NYU Faculty Vote No Confidence in their President

Posted by | 10:42 AM
Faculty at large American universities, in which most of the country's medical schools and teaching hospitals are embedded, are becoming...

Minimizing Legal Liability or Upholding the Mission? - the Markingson Case Redux

Posted by | 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...

More Cause for Hope - After Novartis Chairman's Rescinded Golden Parachute, Swiss Voters Give Control of Hired Executives' Salaries Back to Owners

Posted by | 8:47 AM
Recently, we discussed the latest stupefyingly big golden parachute given to a departing pharmaceutical executive.  Former Novartis CEO an...

It is Harder to Run a Small Public Hospital System than California? - Deep Seated Myths and Logical Fallacies Underpinning Health Care Executive Compensation

Posted by | 5:37 PM
Hospital executive compensation, the gift that keeps on giving...  A Public Hospital CEO's Current Compensation A recent, somewhat obscu...