Informed Consent: Docs Should Ask Permission to Touch It's 2020, and no, it's not implied by patient's mere presence in exam room Jan 16, 2020
Meet the 'Lien Doctors'; Hidden Clinical Trial Data; Google Nabs More Medical Records This past week in healthcare investigations Jan 15, 2020
SCOTUS Punts on Biomarker Test Patents Wide-ranging issue effectively referred to Congress Jan 13, 2020
Teenager in Psych Crisis Waits 25 Days in ED for Admission Amid psychiatric bed shortage, patient left in "Kafkaesque" limbo Jan 07, 2020
I Quit: Why I Fled the Country Escape from corporate insane loopholes and unethical shenanigans Dec 20, 2019 podcast
'Dark Waters': Behind-the-Scenes With Attorney Who Took on DuPont Chemical in Teflon was "completely unregulated" when Robert Bilott went after corporate giant Dec 19, 2019
Serious Illnesses in Nebraska Tied to Exosome Therapy New trend in unapproved stem cell therapy led to sepsis in some patients Dec 16, 2019
Do You Accept Gifts From Patients? From a bottle of wine to your kid's college tuition -- where do you draw the line? Dec 05, 2019
'Wrong-Pipe' Intubation Deaths; Doc Group Sues Patients; Booted From Nursing Homes This past week in healthcare investigations Dec 04, 2019
Parents Want Child 'Frozen' at Age 6: Bioethicist Weighs In You voted, now see the results and an expert's discussion Oct 25, 2019
Cyberstalking vs Free Speech: Where's the Line? Balancing First Amendment rights against psychic harm Oct 24, 2019
Sex Assault at Mt. Sinai; Pharma's MD Millionaires; Mammography Marketing Machine This past week in healthcare investigations Oct 23, 2019
Deaf Parents Want Deaf Baby: Bioethicist Weighs In You voted, now see the results and an expert's discussion Oct 11, 2019
Ethics Consult: Deaf Couple Only Wants Deaf Baby You make the call: should doctor implant embryo selected for deafness? Oct 04, 2019
Physicians Struggle to Care for Migrants on U.S.-Mexico Border In El Paso, care continuity a challenge; children hit the hardest Sep 17, 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
Pain Specialists Pile on CDC Opioid Guidelines Chronic pain patients were left out to dry Sep 05, 2019
Desperate Families Pursue 'N-of-1' Trials for Ultra-Rare Diseases Technology dangles hope of cure -- for those able to pay Aug 21, 2019
60 Years On, Twin/Triplet Study Still Raises Questions One psychiatrist's take on 1960s experiment that separated twins and triplets at birth in the name of science Jul 02, 2019
Physician-Assisted Suicide Once Again Divides AMA Members Some expressed a clear desire to decide a policy and move on Jun 11, 2019
AMA Moves on Policing Harassment Board backs new policy for complaints at AMA events; TIME'S UP Healthcare partnership could be next Jun 10, 2019
AMA Delegates Debate Privacy of Substance Use Tx Records Comments address patient privacy, treatment needs Jun 09, 2019
Protesters Rally, Disrupt Opening Session at AMA Meeting Activists urge the association to support Medicare for All Jun 08, 2019
Jellyfish Memory Supplement Prevagen Called 'Clear-Cut Fraud' Stop buying useless brain supplements, the Skeptical Cardiologist says Jun 08, 2019
USC Party Dean Gets $1.8M; TV Doc Disciplined; Fla. 3-Strike Law Fails Bad Practice: a weekly roundup of clinicians accused, convicted, or under investigation May 24, 2019
Mt. Sinai Institute Called Hotbed of Sex, Age Discrimination Former employees describe sexist, ageist, racist behavior in 174-page filing May 15, 2019
Meet the MicroCog. You May Soon, Whether You Like It or Not Docs worry about accuracy of commonly used cognitive screening tool May 07, 2019
Aggressive Therapy at End of Life Common in Cancer Little or no benefit for patients who died within 30 days of diagnosis Apr 15, 2019
'Party House' Rehab; Whistleblower Millionaire; 911 Needs CPR This past week in healthcare investigations Mar 27, 2019
You're 70 -- It's Time You Underwent Skills Testing Is this what age discrimination looks like? Mar 21, 2019
Fertility Fraud; Pharma's 'Patient' Advocacy; Mass. Nursing Homes Fined This past week in healthcare investigations Mar 20, 2019
Rehab Recruiters; Lilly the Cannabis King; Feds Pin Blame in Child Deaths This past week in healthcare investigations Mar 05, 2019
When Mentor Becomes Aggressor: Why Victims Stay Silent Fear -- of nothing being done except to punish the victims Feb 28, 2019
Want to Know If Someone Is Manipulating Data? Milton Packer describes how to distinguish science from magic Feb 27, 2019
Black History Month: Talking With Raechele Cochran Gathers, MD Early encounters led to a career in dermatology Feb 26, 2019
