Report: Rules are changing, but most residents still won't get enough sleep

Report: Rules are changing, but most residents still won’t get enough sleep.

As more surgery moves to outpatient facilities…..

Spine experts repudiate medtronic studies

“It harms patients to have biased and corrupted research published,” five doctors wrote in a joint editorial that accompanied the reports. “It harms patients to have unaccountable special interests permeate medical research.”

West Hartford Doc Caught In Drug Probe Gets Reprimand, Oversight | CT Health I-Team

West Hartford Doc Caught In Drug Probe Gets Reprimand, Oversight | CT Health I-Team. He is doing something illegal and he gets a reprimand?  Gee, he must be a doctor.

Conflicts of Interest skewer cancer prevention

In the book, “National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society: Criminal Indifference to Cancer Prevention and Conflicts of Interest,” Epstein argues that the NCI and ACS have spent tens of billions of taxpayer and charity dollars focusing on treatment to the exclusion of prevention, which has allowed cancer rates to skyrocket, with the disease now affecting nearly one in two men and more than one in three women. Furthermore, the author claims that not only do numerous conflicts of interest exist within the NCI and ACS, but the NCI and ACS are also withholding a mass of information on avoidable causes of cancer.

The DPH has the power…will they use it?

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/health/entry/lawmakers_tighten_doctor_discipline/ The new legislation enables the DPH to pull the license of a doctor who lost his license in another state.  Recently, Dr. Berken, on our sex offender registry, got

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Analysis of flawed medical examining board

For years, outside critics have lashed out at the board, saying it is too lenient with doctors, and has allowed some physicians to keep their licenses after having committed egregious violations.

Critics have been equally harsh toward the Department of Public Health’s investigatory and legal staff, which looks into claims against doctors, hands often-truncated findings to the board and recommends

resolutions.

Patient advocates believe the board and DPH are failing to protect the public against the few bad apples who abuse their medical privileges.

Board members themselves — past and present — told Greenwich Time they believe the system is flawed.

new resource for consumers

This brochure provides the consumer on his or her rights under the Affordable care act.

average means you can be at risk

Hartford Business.com March 28, 2011   CT hospitals mostly ‘average’ on patient safety 03/15/11 Hospitals in the Hartford/New Haven region ranked 38th out of 68 metropolitan areas for the prevalence

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amednews: Obstetrics safety initiatives cut medical liability costs by 90% :: March 18, 2011 … American Medical News

Why can’t more hospitals and practices follow these common sense approaches to improving care.  Far too often, doctors keep doing the same thing and just hoping for better results.  amednews:

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