From Fraud to Ghana Presidency? Another Sports Doc Abuse Scandal Bad Practice: A weekly roundup of clinicians accused, convicted, or under investigation Feb 21, 2020
Whistleblower Transplant Surgeon; Uncredentialed Child Abuse Doc This past week in healthcare investigations Feb 19, 2020
Doc Wins $4.75M in Fraud, Defamation Case Against Hospital Ob/gyn said she was wrongly accused of substance abuse Feb 05, 2020
'Out of Control' Child Abuse Docs; Harvard Chair Arrested; $116K Hernia Repair This past week in healthcare investigations Jan 29, 2020
Scripts for Dead Patients; School Nurse Charged; Life Sentence for 'Angel of Death' Bad Practice: A weekly roundup of clinicians accused, convicted, or under investigation Jan 24, 2020
Sacked Moffitt Officials Didn't Report Chinese Financial Ties Not clear what was done in exchange for payments Jan 23, 2020
Meet the 'Lien Doctors'; Hidden Clinical Trial Data; Google Nabs More Medical Records This past week in healthcare investigations Jan 15, 2020
Ohio Bill: Transplant an Ectopic Pregnancy, or Go to Jail UCSF's Daniel Grossman, MD, on "abortion murder" and the dangers of legislators ignoring science Dec 17, 2019 video
Botox Doc Goes Nuclear to Fight Bad Online Reviews Suing Yelp users who posted one-star ratings and harsh complaints Nov 05, 2019
Jeffrey Epstein: Hanging or Strangulation? A forensic pathologist on the new accusations Nov 01, 2019
Child Abuse Pediatricians Face Media Scrutiny Decade-old subspecialty has had its share of controversy Oct 30, 2019
Sleepwalking, Cults, and Other Unusual Insanity Defenses Most defenses involve psychosis or bipolar disorder, but there are interesting exceptions Oct 28, 2019
Ethics Consult: Deaf Couple Only Wants Deaf Baby You make the call: should doctor implant embryo selected for deafness? Oct 04, 2019
Four Nurse Practitioners Accused in Calif. Death Certificate Project One surrendered license; another accused of coming to work "wobbly," "drugged," and "under the influence" Sep 11, 2019
Green Beret Fights to Sue Military Doctors Sgt. Richard Stayskal has been pushing Congress to make a change to the "Feres Doctrine" Sep 11, 2019
Iβve Got My Rights in Peer Review, Right? Wrong. Hospital committees can make or break you Sep 10, 2019
Death Certificate Project Accuses 64 Calif. Doctors Five surrender licenses after claims of grossly negligent overprescribing; more to come Sep 03, 2019
Wait, What? Neil Armstrong Died From Botched Surgery!? Hospital paid $6 million to astronaut's family, newly revealed documents showed Jul 25, 2019
Mt. Sinai Institute Called Hotbed of Sex, Age Discrimination Former employees describe sexist, ageist, racist behavior in 174-page filing May 15, 2019
More States Moving to Ban Early Abortions Two have enacted 6-week bans in the last three months Mar 28, 2019
When Mentor Becomes Aggressor: Why Victims Stay Silent Fear -- of nothing being done except to punish the victims Feb 28, 2019
Most Female Thoracic Surgeons Report Sexual Harassment on Job Survey finds shocking 81% say #UsToo Jan 29, 2019
When Docs Sexually Violate Patients First of a three-part series on physicians who abuse patients and the institutions that enable them Jan 24, 2019
Does Johnson's Baby Powder Cause Cancer? Milton Packer says the $4.69-billion verdict is about anger, not medicine Jan 09, 2019
Feds, States Implement Raft of Health New Rules in 2019 New Medicaid expansions, aid-in-dying laws in the mix Jan 03, 2019
Bad Docs Give Up Licenses, But Not Medical Practice More than 250 surrender licenses in one state, but still practice in another Nov 30, 2018
How One Troubled Doc Found a Home in New York Trail of allegations and disciplinary actions against John Kidd stops at state border Nov 30, 2018
'I Had Not Kept Up': A Physician Re-Education Story Patient's overdose made Jeoffry Gordon, MD, recognize he didn't know everything Nov 02, 2018
Expert: Let Ethics Guide Pain Prescribing Framework won't vary with 'swirling' political or regulatory climate Sep 10, 2018
The Calif. Docs Accused of Overprescribing Opioids Complaints cite "gross negligence," "incredibly high" doses -- and bad penmanship Sep 05, 2018
'Death Certificate Project' Terrifies California Doctors Hundreds threatened with disciplinary action for opioid scripts to patients who overdosed Aug 30, 2018
Calif. Medical Board Acts on Doc With Risky MS 'Cure' Physician featured in States of Disgrace series Jul 31, 2018
HIV Criminalization Called Ineffective and Unjust Expert consensus: laws put public more at risk Jul 26, 2018
'End Demand' Laws No Help for Sex Workers' Access to Care Still face stigma, discrimination, and lack of access to HIV treatment Jul 26, 2018
How Did Theranos' Holmes Fool So Many Smart People? WSJ's John Carreyrou on how disgraced entrepreneur nearly got away with it Jun 25, 2018
Star Rating Screwup; Booze Study Canned; Sexist Docs Settle The past week in healthcare investigations Jun 19, 2018
In Virginia, He's an Addict. In New York, He's Treating Them "They keep it all very quiet. It's not part of the public record" May 22, 2018
Multiple Lawsuits, Multiple Deaths, $900k from Medicare 'More than 15, less than 30' malpractice suits, he said May 21, 2018
Medicare Slow to Boot Docs with State Sanctions Federal program keeps paying physicians found incompetent or unethical May 17, 2018
