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Search results for "AMA" ...
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Prescription for Trouble
Consumer Reports examines online pharmacies. While some are legitimate operations, other "rogue" sites can carry many risks for consumers.
Tags: prescriptions; medicine; drugs; online pharmacies; FDA; AMA; FTC
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Doctor test
Inside Edition's undercover investigation of medical doctors reveals that many fail to conduct adequate checkups, with potentially deadly results.
Tags: TAPE; U.S. Preventive Services Task AMA American Medical Association
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No title (id: 12991)
Throughout America there are thousands of doctors--working in hospitals, clinics and private offices--who hurt and even fatally injure patients through incompetence or carlessness yet remain in active practice. Although only 5 to 10 percent of licensed physicans pose a significant risk to patients, that translates to 31,000 to 65,000 physicians. The Parade looks at the injuries or deaths some of these doctors have caused, how to identify them and what can be done to avoid them. (April 14, 1996)
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Cutting Costs - or Quality?
The Washington Post Weekly reports that "as cost-conscious insurers transform the health care system, some experts are applauding them for bringing greater efficiency to medicine. But many patients and medical professionals...argue that the system is cutting corners as well as costs..."
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No title (id: 7867)
Public Citizen (Washington, D.C.) examines the country's health care system; asks why 37 million people cannot afford to get sick, July/August 1990.
Tags: MD Geiger Radelat AMA
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No title (id: 7518)
Indianapolis Star discovers how Indiana's malpractice laws favor doctors and their insurance companies and that a handful of doctors commit a disproportionate amount of malpractice with no action taken against them; malpractice plaintiffs are unlikely to win their cases, June 24 - 26, 1990.
Tags: IN Hallinan Headden AMA
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$353,000 Bailout Trips AMA Exec
Chicago Sun-Times reports on a top American Medical Association official who resigned when it was disclosed he received an inappropriate reimbursement for his losses in the 1987 stock market crash.
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"How Health PACs Spend Millions to Influence Elections"
This report published by the Public Citizen Health Research Group adds up Federal Election Commission figures and finds that the American Medical Association's Political Action Committee is the fourth biggest contributor to political campaigns, ahead of even the NRA. Drug companies are not far behind. Includes a list of the nation's top health spenders in politics.
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Wall Street Journal finds that a seal of approval from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations may mask serious flaws in some hospitals, Oct. 12, 1988.
Tags: Bogdanich AMA AHA
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No title (id: 6524)
Chicago Sun-Times reports on questionable financial transactions in the hierarchy of the American Medical Association; the organization's chief executive authorized personal loans of AMA funds to other executives, Oct. 29 - Dec. 11, 1989.