Lawmaker calls for medical-error reforms
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- Lawmaker calls for medical-error reforms
- A’s Breslow aiming to attend medical school
- Dr. James Madara resigns as CE of the University of Chicago …
- Medical isotope shortage threatens treatments
- Free medical clinic at Forum reached full capacity for second day
- How LA’s massive free clinic event came together
Lawmaker calls for medical-error reforms
Houston Chronicle
Jim McDermott D-Seattle a key subcommittee chairman who helped write the current health care reform legislation. “Dead by Mistake” a Hearst Newspapers investigation of medical errors published last week brought to light an issue that is “right there at the top of the list” of problems that should be solved McDermott said. The Hearst investigation showed that even though nearly 200000 people die each year from medical errors and infections in hospitals throughout the country — and hundreds of thousands more suffer debilitating injuries — there is no concerted effort to track the carnage. Car accidents airplane incidents and workplace injuries are regularly accounted for but there is no national system for tracking deaths from medical care.
A’s Breslow aiming to attend medical school
San Jose Mercury News
Bert Lubin the research institute’s president “we’ve certainly never had a baseball player who could speak our language. “There’s a reason the Wall Street Journal anointed Breslow “The Smartest Man in Baseball. “Whenever his career ends Breslow hopes to attend medical school with the goal of doing research to help eradicate pediatric cancer. That passion was born in the traumatic childhood experience of watching his older sister fight thyroid cancer. That plan has been delayed because well this baseball thing is working out for an unlikely major leaguer whose contract once sold for $1. He has become a surprising workhorse in the akland bullpen after being claimed on waivers in May. Breslow also has used his unexpected baseball platform to create the nonprofit Strike 3 Foundation to raise money for cancer research.
Dr. James Madara resigns as CE of the University of Chicago …
Chicago Tribune
James Madara resigns as CE of the University of Chicago Medical Center — chicagotribune. James Madara transformed the prestigious South Side institution reshaped its relationship with the surrounding community and put it at the center of a national debate about how to care for poor and indigent patients.
Medical isotope shortage threatens treatments
The Associated Press
— The shutdown of a nuclear reactor in Canada has caused a shortage of a radioactive isotope used to detect cancers and heart disease forcing doctors into costlier procedures that can be less effective and expose patients to more radioactivity. Some 16 million people in the United States — 40000 patients each day — undergo medical imaging procedures using the isotope technetium-99. Eighty percent of nuclear medicine scans use it. Ninety-one percent of hospitals pharmacies and commercial imaging groups that answered a June survey by the Society of Nuclear Medicine said the shortage had affected them. “You already have a vulnerable population with cancer so it’s not trivial” said Dr. Jeffrey Norenberg who heads the National Association of Nuclear Pharmacies and directs radiopharmaceutical sciences at the University of New Mexico.
Free medical clinic at Forum reached full capacity for second day
Los Angeles Times
Now | Los Angeles Times. The organization also continues to put out the call for volunteers including oral surgeons dental and.
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How LA’s massive free clinic event came together
Los Angeles Times
’s massive free clinic event came together A record executive and his wife saw a TV piece on the Remote Area Medical Foundation and contacted the founder. The couple used their connections and pieces fell into place. Thousands have been helped.
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