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2nd LA County hospital notes radiation overdoses

Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

A second hospital in Los Angeles County says patients received overdoses of radiation from CT scans.

Convicted plastic surgeon arrested in Ventura County

Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Ventura County authorities have arrested Dr. Scott Takasugi, the 56-year-old former Sacramento plastic surgeon who pleaded no contest to sexually exploiting his patients. According to online inmate information on the Ventura County Sheriff's Department Web site, Oxnard Police Department arrested Takasugi on Monday, the day he was scheduled to be sentenced in Sacramento County Superior Court. A defense...

Last chance for seasonal flu vaccine in Rhode Island

Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday

By Felice Freyer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island has received its last shipment of vaccine against seasonal flu for adults, Health Director David R. Gifford said Tuesday. Some 5,000 doses of injectable vaccine and 20,000 of the nasal spray are on their way to primary-care doctors who did not get their full order. The Health Department is urging doctors to reserve the injectable vaccine for people...

The Manson Family Tree: Possible Son Asserts Killer is His Dad

LAist (Free subscription) | yesterday

Matthew Robert (Roberts) says Charles Manson is his dad (via UK Sun) 41-year-old Los Angeles-based musician Matthew Roberts (sometimes Robert) is making headlines here and in the UK for claiming convicted killer Charles Manson is his father. The New Rising Son singer "told the U.K.'s Sun newspaper that he tracked down his mother who told him she was a Manson follower in 1967 when the killer raped...

Don't you just HATE it when a doctor looks at you

Underground Facades (Free subscription) | yesterday

And says ' Uh-oh '... (Those two syllables seem to be used everywhere in the world...) So I went for my quarterly check-up with Hedwig 'The Angry' this morning, and when she looked into my good, left eye, she said, ' Uh-oh ..' And so I asked, 'Oh gawwd , what now?' 'You have a thrombosis in the central vein of your optical nerve.' (oh... is that all... The reason I really really like my eye doctor...

Doctor wakes up in psych ward, misses court date

Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday

On the day he was supposed to go to prison for sexually exploiting his patients, Dr. Scott Takasugi instead woke up Monday in a psychiatric hospital, facing a no-bail warrant for his arrest. And in a telephone interview with The Bee, the one-time Kaiser plastic surgeon star said that in spite of his no-contest felony plea, he hadn't done anything illegal. "What I did was misconstrued medical...

Odd stationery choice for Hospital Authority member

The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

TAMPA -- Republican Congressional candidate Eddie Adams Jr. made an odd use of his campaign stationery in his capacity as a newly appointed member of the Hillsborough County Hospital Authority, a governmental agency. Adams is once again campaigning for the...

• Odd stationary choice for Hospital Authority member - Bay Buzz

County relocates Southwest Eligibility Center

Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

The Harris County Hospital District opened its Southwest Eligibility Center, a new and larger location for its registering of patients for hospital district services. The center is one of five locations across Harris County used by HCHD.

Can social media help in a crisis? Hospital shows how in Fort Hood shooting.

Crisisblogger (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

Since I talk a lot about social media and crisis communication these days, I’m often asked for specific examples of how social media works in a major crisis. Here’s a great example, thanks to Kitty Allen at Harris County Hospital District I was pointed to how Scott and White hospital, the closest Level 1 trauma [...]

Conejos County Hospital Funding Loss

SLV Dweller (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

A voter turnout of less than 50 percent and a possible misunderstanding of what was being requested by the hospital district are regarded as possible contributing factors to the loss in the Nov. 3 election of a property tax funding request for the Conejos County Hospital.

Houstonians for Health Care Hit Dan Wolterman, Opponents Hard

Burnt Orange Report (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

Recently, Houstonians for Health released it's latest video providing viewers their opinion of what's wrong with the health care system in Houston. Houstonian's' for Health is an unknown group, that I still can't identify. The very detailed video shows how Dan Wolterman, CEO of the powerful Memorial Hermann Health System, tried to "dump" one of their hospitals on tax payers. What's scary...

1901: Doctor's work leaves woman dead

RealChoice (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009

On November 15, 1901, 22-year-old Irma Brown of Garden City, Kansas, died at County Hospital from complications of an abortion performed there that day. Dr. Robert E. Gray was arrested November 19 and held without bail by Coroner's Jury. On March 26, 1902, Gray was acquitted by a jury. Irma's abortion was typical of criminal abortions in that it was performed by a physician . Note, please, that with...

Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center State of the Art Outpatient Facility Opens in Fountain Valley, CA

The Medical Quack (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009

The new center has been 5 years in the making and not too far from me. Earlier this year I spoke with one of the other hospitals in the system about their conversion to electronic medical records. BD Long Beach Memorial Center's Conversion to Electronic Medical Records From the Website: The MemorialCare health system includes Long Beach Memorial Medical Center , Miller Children's Hospital in Long Beach,...

Essex County Now Raising Money through Raising the Dead

Baristanet (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009

Camera crews from the SyFy channel's popular show Ghost Hunters paid Essex County up to $1,000 a day for the right to film inside the abandoned Essex County Hospital Center in Cedar Grove, according to NorthJersey.com . The show also paid additional fees to hire off-duty officers for security, and for permits allowing off-site parking and access to restrooms.

book report: The House of Hope and Fear

girl in greenwood (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009

The House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospital by Audrey Young I loved this book and read it in a few hours becuase I was so fascinated. I work at the hospital that Dr. Young describes with honesty and affection. In her stories about patients, doctors, families, and aspects of society, the reader gets a view inside a public hospital and the people who work and are treated there. There are...