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pautrey: The 'July Effect': Worst Month For Fatal Hospital Errors, Study Finds
Study Finds More Fatal Medication Errors in July, Just When New
Residents Arrive
By LAUREN COX
June 3, 2010— |
06-07-2010 03:09 AM | 12 | 13 | Health |
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Raymond: Hospital superbugs kill 48,000 patients a year
Researchers found that people who come down with pneumonia after
surgery remain in the hospital an extra two weeks at an additional
cost of $46,000 per person for treatment
Staff photo Hospital... |
06-04-2010 01:47 AM | 0 | 7 | Health |
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Bret Cahill: Obviously your life might be extended decades if you really need the
treatment but in order to encourage more proactive preventative
medicine someone needs to do a study on how much your life is
shortened on average for each day you spend in a... |
03-26-2010 04:04 AM | 15 | 16 | Health |
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jigo: From AARP Bulletin March 2010
"Leslie Clark spent less than 24 hours in the hospital during an attack
of diverticulitis. But she felt even sicker when she saw the bill:
$10,206. So Clark, a New York TV writer, turned to a medical negotiation... |
03-13-2010 05:35 AM | 3 | 4 | Health |
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jigo: Interesting report on CNN on hospital overcharges
$1000 for toothbrush
$140 for one tylenol tablet
$23 for alcohol swab
Estimated trillion dollars a year in overcharges.
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03-02-2010 02:44 PM | 4 | 5 | Health |
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Tristan: An employee at the hospital gives your data to a scammer who has
provided no service but sends you an official-looking bill posing as a
doctor or X-ray service or any of the many private contractors who
typically work for the hospital.
Another... |
12-05-2009 11:24 PM | 0 | 4 | Health |
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john: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/swine-flu-jab-boy-rushed-to-hospital-14543347.html "By this stage he was going into spasms. He couldn't bend his fingers. Iwas absolutely terrified. "He was rambling and becoming incoherent.... |
10-29-2009 12:41 AM | 10 | 11 | Children's health |
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rpautrey2: http://www.naturalnews.com/027132_hospital_home_births_natural_health.html
NaturalNews.com printable article
Originally published September 30 2009
Home Births Proven as Safe as Hospital Births
by David Gutierrez, staff writer
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10-10-2009 02:13 AM | 4 | 5 | Children's health |
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rpautrey2: http://www.naturalnews.com/027132_hospital_home_births_natural_health.html
NaturalNews.com printable article
Originally published September 30 2009
Home Births Proven as Safe as Hospital Births
by David Gutierrez, staff writer
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10-09-2009 05:51 PM | 2 | 3 | Health |
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Tristan: Hospital Billing
Few laws limit hospital prices
http://www.hospitalbillhelp.org/public_policy?id=0002
Hospitals are free to set their own prices, and each hospital does so in
a complex document called the "Charge Master."
It is well... |
10-07-2009 03:45 AM | 0 | 3 | Health |
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Tam: Here's one way we can reduce healthcare costs:
The Soviet Union used to commit dissidents to psychiatric "hospitals"
for being so "insane" as to oppose the system.
China still uses this practice, as it did against the falun gong. |
09-30-2009 02:48 PM | 0 | 2 | Health |
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rpautrey2: Criminally insane escapee in Wash. still on the loose
ASSOCIATED PRESS
2:00 a.m. September 19, 2009
SPOKANE, Wash. — A criminally insane killer who escaped during a
mental hospital field trip to a county fair remained on the run... |
09-20-2009 06:08 AM | 0 | 4 | Psychobiology |
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john: http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20090712/UPDATES01/90712013
Vaccine leaves nurse disabled. Nurse fights hospital over smallpox shot
The Cincinnati Enquirer . July 12, 2009
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Professionally and... |
07-31-2009 01:52 AM | 22 | 25 | Children's health |
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Tristan: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/50171.php
"New Jersey-based St. Barnabas Health Care System overcharged the
federal government by hundreds of millions of dollars by 'systematically
inflating the bills' under the Medicare outlier... |
07-27-2009 09:56 PM | 1 | 2 | Health |
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rpautrey2: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iN2nQkt-hqAkWgQavGRPLGtJCWLQD98TVTR01
Report: Cover-up followed death in NYC hospital
By DAVID B. CARUSO – Jun 19, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) — Staffers at a Brooklyn hospital falsified medical... |
07-09-2009 04:13 PM | 0 | 4 | Psychobiology |
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Raymond: Ignored Psychiatric Patient Dies On Floor Of Hospital Waiting Room
Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief in Society.
http://themoderatevoice.com/20772/ignored-psychiatric-patient-dies-on-hospital-waiting-room-floor/
Jul 2nd, 2008 |
Some... |
07-08-2009 07:58 PM | 1 | 2 | Health |
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Raymond: Florida Hospital pays over $7 million to settle False Claims Act
violations due to doctor referrals
The Baptist Health South Florida Inc., will pay the United States
$7,775,000 to settle False Claims Act and the Stark Statute violations
that... |
06-28-2009 09:23 PM | 0 | 2 | Health |
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Raymond: As Many as 9 out of 10 medical bills and hospital bills contain
errors
Medical Billing Advocates of America - Today's complex medical billing
and hospital billing system allows fraud and abuse to go undetected.
Studies have shown that as many... |
03-31-2009 09:05 AM | 1 | 3 | Health |
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Raymond: Protecting hospital assets
Hospitals, systems move out of stocks
The stock markets’ decline in 2008 drained cash from many hospital and
health system balance sheets and left some with losses that could put
lending at risk
Healthcare... |
03-16-2009 09:13 PM | 0 | 3 | Health |
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rpautrey2: Ex-LA hospital exec arrested in alleged med fraud
The Associated Press
Posted: 01/30/2009 11:50:38 AM PST
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_11591340?nclick_check=1
LOS ANGELES—The former co-owner of a hospital was arrested Friday on... |
02-25-2009 07:04 PM | 0 | 3 | Health |
