Thứ Năm, 16 tháng 5, 2013

C R Bard Settles Allegations of Kickbacks to Promote Radiation Treatment for Prostate Cancer

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Screening for and aggressive treatment of prostate cancer has become an enormously lucrative business, if not necessarily a life-saving medi...
Thứ Ba, 14 tháng 5, 2013

Six Years Later, Ranbaxy - Oops, Daiichi Sankyo - Pleads Guilty to Adulteration, Pays $500 Million

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It only took until 2013, but the US Food and Drug Administration finally secured guilty pleas and fines.  The basics are in an Associated Pr...
Thứ Sáu, 10 tháng 5, 2013

Clouded "Visionary" Leadership - Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's EPIC "Business Cycle Disruptions"

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A typical excuse for the multi-million dollar compensation now enjoyed by many leaders of health care organizations is these leaders' su...
Thứ Năm, 9 tháng 5, 2013

Guest Post: A Physician Rebels Against Micromanagement by "'Leadership-Trained' Management Extenders"

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Health Care Renewal presents a guest post by Dr Howard Brody, John P McGovern Centennial Chair of Family Medicine, Director of the Institut...
Thứ Tư, 8 tháng 5, 2013

Tales of the Wayfaring Generic Manager - from Ritz Carlton Hotels to Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital to Cancer Treatment Centers of America

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In 2006, we wondered what a former hotel manager, Mr Gerard van Grinsven, admittedly known for putting the "wow" back in the Detr...
Thứ Ba, 7 tháng 5, 2013

BLOGSCAN - An Ex-Pharmaceutical Company CEO to Run the American College of Cardiology?

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Marilyn Mann's blog discussed the appointment of a former pharmaceutical company executive, most recently at Actelion, and previously a...
Chủ Nhật, 5 tháng 5, 2013

AMA says EHRs create 'appalling Catch-22' for docs - And just how many experts does it take to screw in a light bulb, anyway?

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(NOTE:  this post, being about minor matters like death and financial mayhem, is particularly and unusually [even for me] biting and lacking...