Hospital Chain Inquiry Cited Unnecessary Cardiac Work

The New York Times | By REED ABELSON and JULIE CRESWELL | Published: August 6, 2012   In the summer of 2010, a troubling letter reached the chief ethics officer of the hospital giant HCA, written by a former nurse at one of the company’s hospitals in Florida.  In a follow-up interview, the nurse said a doctor at the Lawnwood Regional Medical Center, in the small coastal city of Fort Pierce, had been performing heart procedures on patients who did not need them, putting their lives at risk.  Read more