A medical partnership announced six months ago is now in effect throughout Wisconsin and other states. Bellin Health of Green Bay and Gundersen Health System of La Crosse are officially merged now, representing 11 hospitals and more than 100 clinics. The chief officers of both companies — Scott Rathgaber from Gundersen and Chris Woleske from Bellin — celebrated the merger in a joint online event Thursday.
Inspectors found that an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn hospital made numerous errors in administering epidurals. Some were life-threatening. One was fatal.
Many doctors worry that the drugs' current popularity, fueled in part by social media, has resulted in people taking them without sufficient medical supervision.
