To follow up on this morning entry, here is an article written for Hightower Lowdown discussing the current Supreme Court. Below are some excerpts: “Barely six years into Roberts’ tenure, he and his narrow majority have thoroughly politicized the Court. The one branch of our national government that was intentionally designed by the Founders to set
“If a 747 jetliner crashed every day, killing all 500 people aboard, there would be a national uproar over aviation safety and an all-out mobilization to fix the problem.” However, “in the nation’s hospitals…about the same number of people die on average every day from medical ‘adverse events,’ many of them preventable errors, such as
The Houston Chronicle had a recent editorial about the two-part investigative series authored by Terri Langford about “unscrupulous operators who make millions of Medicare dollars exploiting the most vulnerable of our local residents through private ambulances and for-profit psychiatric clinics – with both scams feeding off each other.” Below is part of the editorial: Medicare, and American taxpayers,
The Chicago Sun-Times reported the guilty plea of the infamous “Angel of Death” Marty Himebaugh who was a nurse charged with overmedicating residents at Woodstock Residence nursing home where six patients died suspiciously. As part of the guilt yplea she admitted she gave one patient a drug he had never been prescribed. “Marty Himebaugh — whom McHenry County prosecutors said
An attorney, an official from a sensible growth advocacy group and a few community residents who gathered at Broome High School on Tuesday evening for a public meeting on a proposed medical waste treatment facility voiced concerns that the safety of the technology that would be used there is unproven. Spartanburg attorney Gary Poliakoff, citing
Kenny Malone at NPR had a great article on the suspicious deaths at care homes in Florida. “In Florida, state regulators are failing to protect residents of assisted living facilities, according to an investigation by The Miami Herald and NPR member station WLRN.” Their analysis of records discovered dozens of questionable deaths in assisted living facilities.
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