The halls of Copper Basin Medical Center are as cold and still as a corpse. Hospital supplies that may never be used — scrubs, gloves, catheters and oxygen masks — sit half-packed in cardboard boxes along walls of a darkened central hallway. Decades of medical records, color-coded in manila folders, wait to be transferred to somewhere else.
Many say a controversial program designed to help doctors with mental health issues is out of control, destroying careers and causing some doctors to commit suicide.
Nearing the end of my career, I’ve been inundated with examples of my colleagues practicing “outside” their training, board certification and “scope of practice.” I am concerned about this “practice drift” towards lucrative, cash-based procedures performed in physician offices. “Practice drift” may occur in three ways.
"I think free and charitable clinics are the most overlooked jewel of the US," says the clinic's CEO, nurse practitioner Angie Settle. Most legislation focuses on federally qualified health centres, Mrs Settle says, which receive federal funding to cater to lower-income and private patients alike.
A prominent doctor molested and sexually abused potentially thousands of his young patients while his research institute employer knew and did nothing, a bombshell lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday charges. The civil suit, brought by a victim of the late doctor was filed against the Rockefeller University Hospital, which is described in the papers as a “world-renowned research institute.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar called for a review of the Indian Health Service following an investigation that revealed the agency’s mishandling of a pedophile doctor. The investigation, by The Wall Street Journal and the PBS series Frontline, detailed the career of Stanley Patrick Weber, a pediatrician who in 2018 was convicted of sexually assaulting Native American boys.