More than four years ago, Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught typed two letters into a hospital’s computerized medication cabinet, selected the wrong drug from the search results, and gave a patient a fatal dose. Vaught was prosecuted this year in an extremely rare...
Before my insurer had even preapproved coverage of the new injectable medicine my doctor had prescribed, I got a voicemail from its manufacturer informing me that I might qualify for its copay assistance program. That meant the company would cover at least the lion’s...
Earlier this week, I wrote a LinkedIn post where I mentioned that the age of the healthcare fraud defendants involved in schemes where their professional license was needed (medical doctor, etc.) appeared to me to be older (and by older I used middle-aged as my...
Health officials in at least three states are investigating a travel nurse suspected of tampering with and potentially contaminating vials and syringes of opioid painkillers in two hospitals, then returning the vials to medication cabinets where they could be...
Emma Moore felt cornered. At a community health clinic in Portland, Oregon, the 29-year-old nurse practitioner said she felt overwhelmed and undertrained. Coronavirus patients flooded the clinic for two years, and Moore struggled to keep up. Then the stakes became...
For those that are movie buffs, you know the term gaslighting. For those that are not, it comes from a 1944 film where the antagonist creates an environment where he convinces his spouse (protagonist) that she is going insane. He does this by creating physical cues...
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