To quote the late 60 Minutes curmudgeon Andy Rooney, "did you ever notice" how documentary movies--we could extend this to all so...
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11.09
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clinical trials,
conflicts of interest,
deception,
evidence-based medicine,
FDA,
marketing,
Shire,
stealth marketing
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Promoting Amphetamines for Over-Eating - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Every day seems to bring the latest breathlessly touted innovation in modern health care. The endless hawking of new health care wonders is...
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08.45
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corporate physician,
health care corruption,
Kindred Health,
mission-hostile management,
Select Medical
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Timing Discharges to Maximize Revenue - "Corruption" of Corporate Long-Term Hospitals?
A recent Wall Street Journal article that focused on a quirk in US Medicare payment rules that may be gamed by long-term hospitals also rev...
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You Called Me "Greedy?" - $2.2 Million/Year CEO of Catholic Health Care Whose Mission is to Bring "God’s Mercy to the Poor and Under-served" Sues Union for Defamation
From the annals of cognitive dissonance.... Background Here is the background. Mercy Health, formerly Catholic Health Partners, claims to b...
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11.43
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executive compensation,
hospital systems,
hospitals,
St Luke's Health System,
West Georgia Health
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Pay 'em When They're Up, Pay 'em When They're Down - CEO Value Extraction Even at Small Non-Profit Hospitals
To the tune of "Dirty Laundry," by Don Henley, some more of health care's dirty laundry... We have frequently discussed the se...
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11.33
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AMA,
healthcare IT dangers,
healthcare IT distraction,
healthcare IT risk,
HITECH,
Jeffrey A. Singer MD,
Wall Street Journal
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Wall Street Journal: "ObamaCare’s Electronic-Records Debacle"
This WSJ Op-Ed could have been entitled "President Sucker: Led Down the Garden Path by The Healthcare IT Industry." It is entitle...
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