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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 ...
Speakers at conference discuss impacts and possible solutions for deadly mistakes and near misses in hospitals
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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...
Two recent interesting settlements at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), both involving technology
Two recent interesting settlements at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), both involving technology. The first case involved a medication...
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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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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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I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
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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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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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Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
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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...
