Medical Ethics
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The radiologist who has appointed herself the “guardian angel” (her term) of confessed killer Joran van der Sloot has accused his lawyer of misleading her and demanded the return of $75,000 she had sent for bail money.
Mary Hamer, MD, of Lake City, Florida, has been financially supporting van der Sloot, who pleaded guilty on January 11 to killing Stephany Flores, … read more »
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Written by: Steve Millburg, Filed in: Diagnostic Imaging, Medical Ethics, Practice Management
The University of Missouri Department of Radiology appears to be under investigation.
The Columbia Daily Tribune newspaper of Columbia, Missouri (home of the university), reported Sunday that:
Multiple sources have told the Tribune that radiology employees, including low-level staff members, recently were instructed by the UM System General Counsel’s office not to delete e-mails or destroy documents, indicating an investigation.
The newspaper also … read more »
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A CNN report scheduled for tonight accuses most radiologists who take the exam to become board certified of cheating.
A CNN story about the report, posted online earlier today, begins: “For years, doctors around the country taking an exam to become board certified in radiology have cheated by memorizing test questions, creating sophisticated banks of what are known as ‘recalls,’ a … read more »
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Written by: Steve Millburg, Filed in: Abdominal Imaging, Medical Ethics, Pediatric Radiology, Practice Management
Mayo Clinic is building two new proton beam treatment facilities, one in Minnesota and one in Arizona. They exemplify either “what is wrong with American health care today” or an “investment to ensure that [Mayo's] patients have access to proven, effective, safe treatment for serious illnesses.”
Or maybe both. Or neither.
The “what’s wrong” assessment comes from Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, … read more »
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Written by: Steve Millburg, Filed in: Cardiac Imaging, Medical Ethics, Nuclear Medicine
What started as a whistleblower complaint by a radiologist has led the federal government to file a $150 million civil lawsuit against an Ypsilanti, Michigan, radiology company, its owners, and a physician.
The suit charges that the company generated at least 90 percent of its business by paying kickbacks to doctors for referrals and that unnecessary imaging tests put some patients … read more »
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Parsimonious: characterized by parsimony; miserly; close. Synonymn: stingy.
Parsimonious: 1. exhibiting or marked by parsimony; especially: frugal to the point of stinginess. 2. sparing, restrained. Synonym: see stingy.
Parsimonious: unwilling to spend money or use resources; stingy or frugal.
Parsimonious: very unwilling to spend money or use resources.
Those definitions come from, respectively, Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition; Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Ninth … read more »
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Written by: Steve Millburg, Filed in: Abdominal Imaging, Chest Radiology, Diagnostic Imaging, Medical Ethics, Musculoskeletal Radiology
Medicare paid $12.8 million in questionable reimbursements and $6.6 million in flatly incorrect reimbursements to portable X-ray suppliers in 2009, according to a study by inspector general of the federal Department of Health and Human Services.
The study, released this week, covered providers who travel to nursing facilities, private homes, and other nonclinical locations to provide X-rays of the extremities, pelvis, … read more »
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Written by: Steve Millburg, Filed in: Abdominal Imaging, Breast Imaging, Cardiac Imaging, Chest Radiology, Diagnostic Imaging, Emergency Radiology, Gastrointestinal Imaging, Interventional Radiology, Medical Ethics, Musculoskeletal Radiology, Neuroradiology, Nuclear Medicine, Obstetric Ultrasound, Pediatric Radiology
Low doses of ionizing radiation may not carry as much cancer risk as we’ve thought, according to researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.
Breast-cancer researcher Mina Bissell, PhD, explained:
Our data show that at lower doses of ionizing radiation, DNA repair mechanisms work better than at higher doses. This nonlinear DNA damage response casts … read more »
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How hard is the federal government cracking down on Medicare and Medicaid fraud? Tuesday morning, 65 federal and local agents and officers arrested 13 doctors and a nurse practitioner in New Jersey on charges of taking illegal kickbacks from a radiology clinic.
That’s a lot of man- and womanpower—especially for people accused of nonviolent crimes and presumably not likely to be … read more »
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A new study finds that half of women age 80 or older receive screening mammograms for cancer at least every two years.
Should they?
The study, published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, examines rates of screening for breast, colorectal, cervical, and prostate cancer among the elderly in light of what the study calls “ambiguity of recommendations” regarding whether such screening … read more »
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