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- Patients decry C-section rate
- Plans sold in FL target of suit
- 'Doctors Without Borders' recruiting
- Doctor facing DUI charge
- Future of health overhaul in doubt
| Posted: 2/12/2010 © Health News Florida Advocates for women's health are hosting a seminar today and Saturday on the alarming rate of unnecessary Cesarean sections in Miami, where the surgery accounts for more than half of births. Meanwhile, the Orlando Sentinel reports on another patient-education effort: on the dangers of MRIs for pacemaker patients. |
| Plans sold in FL target of suit Posted: 2/10/2010 © Associated Press Minnesota's attorney general is suing two Texas companies that sell discount health plans in a number of states, including Florida: Direct Medical Network Solutions Inc. and Association Healthcare Management Inc. Florida ordered a corrective action plan on the latter company in 2006; it is now sold under the name Family Care Card. |
| 'Doctors Without Borders' recruiting Posted: 2/11/2010 © St. Petersburg Times About 200 doctors and nurses from throughout Central Florida flocked to hear a recruiter from the Nobel Prize-winning international relief organization. |
| Posted: 2/11/2010 © Tallahassee Democrat Dr. Thomas Bixler, a cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, has been placed on administrative leave in his private practice and will not be able to admit patients or perform any procedures in the hospital. In other news, TMH expands its robotic surgery program. |
| Future of health overhaul in doubt Posted: 1/20/2010 © Kaiser Health News As Republicans celebrated a Senate victory in Massachusetts that they say means the death of Pres. Obama’s health-overhaul, experts weigh in on the reasons for the public's disenchantment. Meanwhile in Florida, a former Senate majority leader warned that if the effort collapses, it won't be revived for a decade. Earlier in the day, Atty. Gen. Bill McCollum released a memo listing reasons why the health bills are unconstitutional. |
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