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Health care's culture doesn't encourage doctors to report medical errors of colleagues; article says patients should come first
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Doctors are often aware of their colleagues' medical errors, but fail to report them because of ...
New survey shows physicians feel need to limit health-care costs but make that secondary to the interests of their patients
A new survey about health-care costs reveals that 85 percent of U.S. physicians feel a responsibility to address costs but say other profess...
Health Watch USA hosts chief medical director of Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Lexington and online July 31
Kentucky and online audiences hear discussion of proposed system for patients to report medical errors; comments due July 8
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The Obama administration is creating a new system for patients to report medical mistakes because exi...
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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...
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Part 1 is here . This is the second a series of posts I plan on the issue of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" regarding... -
Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
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Jennifer Tolbert After The Rural Blog published an item ( see below ) yesterday that said 80 percent of people who could benefit from insur... -
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
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...
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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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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...
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FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health director Jeffrey Shuren MD JD voiced the opinion a few years ago that what FDA knows a...
