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January 24, 2005
AMA: Instruction is given on drug safety, pediatrics, anesthesia, and learning from and disclosing errors.
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January 21, 2005
Surgical Society Meeting to Focus on Patient Safety
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January 21, 2005
Despite recent limits, physicians in training face a demanding schedule
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January 21, 2005
KS: Medical group looking for top physician
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January 20, 2005
It's patient beware with in-office surgeries
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January 20, 2005
Last St. Mary's heart doctors set to leave
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January 20, 2005
Group Wants Doctors to Stop Lobbying Patients
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January 20, 2005
AZ: New hospitals, not enough docs
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January 20, 2005
Univ. of Utah and IHC Fight Against Physician Shortage
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January 19, 2005
Norfolk: Physician charged in drug deaths
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January 19, 2005
Minnesota hospital errors revealed
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January 19, 2005
Guam Memorial Hospital deaths to be studied
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January 18, 2005
Thirteen Groups Collaborate in Responding to Federal Government's RFI on NHI Network
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January 18, 2005
Improving Virginia's bleak medical climate...
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January 18, 2005
MA: State to check doctors' criminal backgrounds
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January 18, 2005
MD:
Meeting on malpractice
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January 18, 2005
PA: Monsour continues to fail inspections
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January 17, 2005
amednews: a physician-supported constitutional amendment that limits how much lawyers can collect has not been challenged.
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January 17, 2005
American endocrinologists aim to keep patients safe
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January 17, 2005
ICUs at Mercy & Unity Hospitals Win Safety and Innovation Awards
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January 17, 2005
amednews: Principles and managed care: Not mutually exclusive
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January 17, 2005
A new literature review reveals mixed results for patient safety when work hours are cut.
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January 2005
American Scientist Book Review: The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science
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January 16, 2005
Doctors `practice' medicine
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January 16, 2005
Mixed Ruling in Suit Over Hospital
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January 16, 2005
Your doctor to get graded
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January 16, 2005
The medical industry is having difficulties converting to electronic health records and other computerized systems, but hospitals are making major strides, sometimes held back by doctors.
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January 16, 2005
Brutal hours, intended to build skills, raise safety concerns
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January 16, 2005
Patient safety, not 'tort reform,' critical to public safety
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January 16, 2005
A dropper of disclosure not enough for patients
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January 16, 2005
Watchdog group a clearinghouse for health data
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January 14, 2005
Doctor drops patient for not backing cause
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January 14, 2005
Don't tamper with rights of wronged
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January 14, 2005
Medical ethics issue dismissed
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January 13, 2005
Audubon draws doctors 
Hospital basks in growth spurt
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January 13, 2005
Politically Active Physicians are fighting back
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January 13, 2005
Goal tending:
Patient safety and the environment of care
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January 13, 2005
ABC Toledo: "Medical Mistakes They're killing thousands of Americans every year"
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January 12, 2005
St. Louis: Doctors threatened to beat, blacklist replacements
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January 12, 2005
Doctors aim to curtail errors
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January 12, 2005
Medical services designee position created
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January 11, 2005
Steps to Prevent Medical Errors Urged
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January 11, 2005
Doctors finding bigger is better to reduce costs
Larger practices cut malpractice premiums, allow more freedom.
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January 11, 2005
HealthGrades' Physician Quality Reports Recognized as One of 2004's 50 Most Innovative Database Products by InfoCommerce Group
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January 11, 2005
Steps to prevent medical errors urged
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January 11, 2005
Idaho: Hospital, physicians take steps to build ties; Panel hopes to establish dialogue, avoid pitfalls
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January 9, 2005
MSNBC: Reforms needed to keep doctors in Georgia
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January 10, 2005
Physician response to conflicts between faith and medicine
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January 10, 2005
Attacking patients or their lawyers won't cure what ails the health care industry. Insurance reform is a better place to start.
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January 9, 2005
Consumer Reports: In search of the right surgeon and hospital
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January 9, 2005
Medical apology law may surface
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January 2005
Patient Concerns about Medical Errors in Emergency Departments
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January 8, 2005
Errors Endanger Hospitalized Children
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January 7, 2005
Let Courts Decide on Doctors
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January 5, 2005
Panel Seeks Better Disciplining of Doctors
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January 4, 2005
Mending the relationship between doctors, patients
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January 3, 2005
Patient safety laboratories: States pave the way for a national effort
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January 3, 2005
AMA: Hospital patient safety effort launched to reduce errors, save lives
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January 3, 2005
AMA: Litigation center provides another form of advocacy
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January 2, 2005
Louisville, KY: Pikeville medical school helps keep locally trained doctors in the mountains
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December 31, 2004
Duluth, MN: Key players in state health care policy
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December 31, 2004
Roanoke, VA: As area physicians leave, lawmakers do nothing
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December 30, 2004
Carson City, NVMedical malpractice reform prompts justices to review allegations of inappropriate surgery in 1999
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December 30, 2004
Malpractice glossary
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December 28, 2004
Bend, OR: Bend hospital targets standards
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December 27, 2004
Holding Hospitals Responsible for Failing to Protect
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December 27, 2004
Dayton, OH: Specialty hospital battle may heat up again
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December 26, 2004
A new computer software program is dramatically reducing the risk for error, and saving a great deal of time in the process.
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December 24, 2004
Experts seek ways to guard against misinformation to avoid a loss of public faith.
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December 22, 2004
Public Pays for Blood Expert's Advice, and So Do Firms
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December 21, 2004
Health's 'oops' factor leaves many uneasy
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December 18, 2004
Malpractice laws a key issue Va. lawmakers to face requests for assistance with rising premiums
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December 19, 2004
Nintendo Surgeons More Precise?
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Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services
Tommy Thompson: hhsmail@os.dhhs.gov
website www.hhs.gov
200 Independence Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20201
phone 202-619-0257, 202-690-7000
deputy secretary, Claude Allen, phone: 202-690-6133

National Institutes of Health: www.nih.gov
US Department of Health and Human Services
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20892
phone: 301-496-4000

Occupational Safety and Health Administration
US Department of Labor
200 Constitution Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20210
www.osha.gov
phone: 202-693-1999

Office of the Surgeon General
US Deparment of Health and Human Services
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 18-66
Rockville, MD 20857
www.surgeongeneral.gov
phone: 301-443-4000

 


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