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Search results for "medical impairment" ...
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When Caregivers Harm
The investigation exposes failure of state nursing overseers to take corrective action against licensed caregivers accused of malpractice. Lack of competent oversight led impaired nurses to cause harm to patients through abuse, negligence and stealing patient medication for recreational use among other wrongdoings.
Tags: nurses; California; Nursing Board; harm; caregivers; Tracy Weber; malpractice; drugs; abuse; negligence; discipline;
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Blackout
Halsne found that Washington drivers with severe medical impairments, such as diabetes, were again and again given immunity following serious auto accidents. Washington law does not restrict licenses of drivers who have a long history of blackouts. KIRO-TV profiled a diabetic who sent a total of 9 innocent victims to the hospital in 3 car wrecks. KIRO found eight-thousand medically impaired drivers are allowed to keep their licenses year after year.
Tags: driving license; auto accident; medical impairment; diabetic drivers; blackout accidents; license restriction
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System Failure
These stories reveal how an alcoholic cardiologist was able to continue practicing for several years. Although he was charged with several alcohol-related traffic offenses and would occasionally show up at the hospital under the influence of alcohol, the system still allowed him to practice. These articles examine the flaws in the system, reveal serious lapses by state officials and document of the doctor's dangerous and illegal activities.
Tags: alcohol; impairment; medical board; surgery; hospital; cardiac procedures; Hilton Head; ambulance service
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First. tell no one
This series are an investigation into how the state's medical licensing and discipline agency works in tandem with the private Medical Society of New Jersey to keep impaired and incompetent doctors in practice, and much of their history secret.
Tags: corruption; Consumer Affairs; drug abuse; alcohol abuse; discipline; Board of Medical Examiners; doctors; medical malpractice; CAR
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An officer, a child, an unexamined death
Philadelphia Inquirer looks at the lack of proper police investigation on a case in which an off-duty police officer driving a sport-utility vehicle struck and killed a four-year-old boy on October 11, 1999. The story finds that Crystal Dixon, the driver guilty of the accident, might have been intoxicated at the time she struck the child. The reporter interviews witnesses who state having smelled alcohol on Dixon after the accident occurred, and quotes a doctor saying that she was on medication that could impair a driver's reactions. Investigators neither questioned Dixon, nor gave her a breath test or a blood test, as they normally would have done, if a civilian had struck and killed a child, reports the Inquirer.
Tags: alcohol; driving; drunk driving; children; road accidents; pain medication; muscle relaxant; Fernhill Road; Germantown
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Condition Critical: Code of Silence
WTLV TV-12 "examined the code of silence among doctors, exposed examples of the medical risks it poses to patients and ultimately showed the economic downside for physicians whenever they break that code of silence. ... in one case.. Jacksonville's largest provider of cardiovascular services, St. Vincent's Medical Center, allowed its Chief of Cardiac Surgery to operate on patients despite a severe drinking problem spanning more than a decade ... a drinking problem widely known to the hospital's administration and medical staff.... Our series of investigative reports uncovered a pattern of unchecked power, corruption, cover-up, criminal conduct... even death in the O-R."
Tags: VIDEOCLIP TAPE TRANSCRIPT lawsuit impairment malpractice treatment mistakes
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No title (id: 8264)
American College of Physicians looks into the responsibility of the medical community to react to physicians who are impaired by drug or alcohol abuse, September 1991.
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