Medical System

From The Davis Law Group, Feb. 19, 2019. Because of the multi-million dollar lawsuits and disciplinary sanctions that typically result from medical errors and other forms of hospital negligence, it has long been understood that… Read More

By Liz Szabo, KHN, October 22, 2019. When Dr. Worta McCaskill-Stevens made an appointment for a mammogram last year, she expected a simple breast cancer screening ― not a heavy-handed sales pitch. A receptionist asked… Read More

Researchers Find Racial Bias in Hospital Algorithm By Melanie Evans & Anna Wilde Mathews, The Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2019. Black patients were less likely than white patients to get extra medical help, despite… Read More

While private capital is bringing innovation to health care through new delivery models, technologies, and operational efficiencies, there is another side to investors entering health care. The impact of their common business model of buying,… Read More

By Marty Makary, Newsweek Opinion. Oct.10,2019. It’s hard to think of a worse way to pay for health care than our current system. Imagine if travel websites listed flights with no prices, as airline companies… Read More

By STEPHEN HOBBS, SUN SENTINEL, OCT 26, 2017. It has been more than nine years since Florida health regulators concluded that Dr. Barry Jack Kaplan botched a woman’s breast implants and shouldn’t practice cosmetic surgery. In… Read More

By John Fauber and Matt Wynn, USA TODAY NETWORK.  Some peddled opioids and others sold snake oil treatments. Some had sex with vulnerable patients. Still others botched surgeries or were implicated in patients’ deaths. A… Read More

“We have to withdraw cases because we don’t have enough physician members.” By Christine Jordan Sexton.  Floridapolitics.com Gov. Ron DeSantis made several appointments this week, but he still hasn’t made appointments to the state medical licensing board, and… Read More