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VA retaliation against whistleblower: doctor kept in empty room http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/30/va-retaliation-against-whistleblower-doctor-kept-in-empty-room.html Dr. Dale Klein may be the highest-paid U.S. government employee who literally does nothing while he’s on the clock. A highly rated pain management specialist at the Southeast Missouri John J. Pershing V.A., Klein is paid $250,000 a year to work with veterans, but instead […]
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Denver marijuana industry is eating into area’s restaurant jobs http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/03/31/denver-marijuana-industry-is-eating-into-area-s-restaurant-jobs.html The population of Denver has been steadily growing over the past few years, but not enough of its new inhabitants want to work in the restaurant industry. The reason? The higher-paying jobs are in weed, man. New eateries are popping up all over Denver to […]
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Methadone Accounted for 23% of Opioid OD Deaths in 2014 http://www.medpagetoday.com/painmanagement/painmanagement/64247 CDC report: Higher use of the prescription drug found among Medicaid population by Molly Walker Staff Writer, MedPage Today March 30, 2017 Methadone-related overdoses accounted for nearly one in four deaths related to prescription opioids in 2014, despite a recent decline in drug overdose […]
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DEA: Made-in-China Lethal Opioid Fueling U.S. Drug Epidemic http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/03/31/dea-made-in-china-lethal-opioid-fueling-u-s-drug-epidemic.html# A homemade designer version of fentanyl, the highly addictive opioid which is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent, has been the center of drug busts across the country this month—with law enforcement pinpointing its origin from underground labs in China. The […]
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Complaint: CVS dispensed wrong medication to customer http://setexasrecord.com/stories/511099973-complaint-cvs-dispensed-wrong-medication-to-customer MARSHALL – A Cass County man is suing CVS for giving him the wrong medication, per recent Marshall federal court records. In a lawsuit filed Mar. 30, Atlanta resident Gerald Hobson says that he was supposed to get his prescription of Digoxin from the defendant, but a […]
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Multiple times a week I get a email/text/phone call from pts asking the same or similar question(s) about being denied care by some part of the healthcare system. I am going to put this post on the RESOURCE TAB on my blog so that I can just forward that link to pts in the future. […]
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Local heart surgeon wins legal battle with Memorial Hermann Hospital http://www.khou.com/news/local-heart-surgeon-wins-legal-battle-with-memorial-hermann-hospital/427090868 HOUSTON – A heart surgeon won legal battle with one of the best hospital systems in the country. Dr. Miguel Gomez, III dragged Memorial Hermann through Texas small and supreme courtrooms. After four years, he won $6.4 million. Yet, he is in pieces barely […]
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