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- Public option finds favor even in FL
- FL Medicare patients 'overserved'
- Doctor accused of fondling gives up license
- State clears doctors, parents protest
- Lawyer wants all records? All?
| Public option finds favor even in FL Posted: 10/29/2009 © Miami Herald From the house staff at Jackson Memorial to the president-elect of the AMA, Florida doctors and nurses in quite different venues expressed support Wednesday for health-reform legislation that includes a public option, although there's disagreement on some details. |
| FL Medicare patients 'overserved' Posted: 10/6/2009 © Fort Myers News-Press Every area of Florida except Daytona Beach and Tallahassee showed above-average billing for doctors' services in Medicare last year, according to a GAO report. The state was already a national outlier by 2000, yet recorded a big jump in billings per patient by 2008. |
| Doctor accused of fondling gives up license Posted: By Carol Gentry 10/2/2009 © Health News Florida A Bradenton woman who agreed to wear a wire into the office of the doctor she said sexually accosted her -- Bradenton internist Gangadhara Rao Chapalamadugu -- told the Board of Medicine today that Rao should go to jail, and board members agreed after seeing complaints from six other patients. But their jurisdiction involves only medical practice; they accepted voluntary relinquishment to keep him from ever practicing medicine in Florida again. |
| State clears doctors, parents protest Posted: By Carol Gentry 9/25/2009 © Health News Florida Two doctors who are being sued over the high-profile death of Boca Raton teen-ager Stephanie Kuleba will not have to worry about the Board of Medicine. Confidential state documents show the state dropped its investigation months ago, and that the girl's parents were turned away when they tried to offer evidence. |
| Lawyer wants all records? All? Posted: By Mary Jo Melone 9/24/2009 Health News Florida Florida patients have a right to ask for hospital records about past mistakes. But do they have the right to every report, every x-ray, every single piece of paper for the last 75 years? Tampa’s largest hospital says no and has gone to court to fight it. |
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