Doctors Perform Thousands of Unnecessary Surgeries

Doctors perform thousands of unnecessary surgeries
Only the most egregious claims of unnecessary surgery make headlines: The Maryland cardiologist sentenced in 2011 on charges that he put cardiac stents in more than 100 patients who didn't require them; or the lawsuit filed this year by nearly 100 … Read more on USA TODAY

Doctors spanked by Texas Medical Board
Akin, William Orlan, M.D., Lic. No. C8181, Abilene. On June 14, 2013, the Board and William Orlan Akin, M.D., entered into an Agreed Order requiring Dr. Akin to complete within one year eight hours of CME including four hours in medical record-keeping … Read more on Your Houston News

Exclusive … Communications industry forms privacy coalition – Strawn, Brady …
… support for the reauthorization of the Sickle Cell Treatment Act. They'll be asking for Congress to undo the sequester so the National Institutes of Health, sickle cell treatment centers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's … Read more on Politico