The New York Times yesterday published an article titled, “Incompetent Physicians Are Rarely Reported as Law Requires” which suggests that health maintenance organizations (H.M.O.’s) and hospitals rarely report incompetent doctors to the government as they are required to. According to the article, “in the last decade, 84 percent of H.M.O.’s and 60 percent of hospitals
A May 23rd article on KomoTV.com highlights the story of a young woman wrongly diagnosed with cancer in 1998. According to the article, Jennifer Rufer went from a “pretty young newlywed to a cancer patient hiding her hair loss under a baseball cap” and had received chemotherapy, a hysterectomy and lung surgery due to a
By Sid Mouk, D.C. “Nothing can be done to help you because you have _______________ and it’s incurable.” I recently spoke with a nurse who was having problems with her hair falling out in large amounts. She has been through many difficult situations in her life and, therefore, told me she thought it was due
The New York Times yesterday published an article titled, “Incompetent Physicians Are Rarely Reported as Law Requires” which suggests that health maintenance organizations (H.M.O.’s) and hospitals rarely report incompetent doctors to the government as they are required to. According to the article, “in the last decade, 84 percent of H.M.O.’s and 60 percent of hospitals
A May 23rd article on KomoTV.com highlights the story of a young woman wrongly diagnosed with cancer in 1998. According to the article, Jennifer Rufer went from a “pretty young newlywed to a cancer patient hiding her hair loss under a baseball cap” and had received chemotherapy, a hysterectomy and lung surgery due to a
By Sid Mouk, D.C. “Nothing can be done to help you because you have _______________ and it’s incurable.” I recently spoke with a nurse who was having problems with her hair falling out in large amounts. She has been through many difficult situations in her life and, therefore, told me she thought it was due