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Hot Links: Health-care bills falling? Didn’t think so.
Our first item in Hot Links explains what your bank account has probably been feeling. 1. The idea was competition would lower Texans’ health-care costs. What patients got instead were visit site to...
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Did a UT Southwestern trainee doctor operate on you at Parkland hospital? Did...
Several colleagues and I reported today on how the government found patients at Dallas County’s public hospital, Parkland Memorial, were being operated on without proper consent. And, in addition, an...
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Another leadership change at UT Southwestern, as chief executive over...
Sharon L. Riley, who this year helped lead planning for UT Southwestern Medical Center’s new $800 million hospital, is leaving her post at the end of October. President Daniel Podolsky and executive...
View ArticlePatient records from Parkland stolen
A Parkland Memorial Hospital employee, since fired, is believed to have stolen private information — including social security numbers — on more than 1,300 patients for use in his personal business, a...
View ArticleDoctor has made $2 million from cash-only ‘pill mill,’ federal document says
Yesterday’s raid of a southwest Dallas clinic was aimed at physician-owner Dr. LeeRoy McCurley, according to a search warrant application that was unsealed today. The application, filed by an IRS …...
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Texas bill requiring resident doctors to clearly identify themselves inches...
The Texas Legislature is a step closer to adding some basic protections for patients at hospitals that operate training programs and psychiatric facilities. A measure that requires health-care...
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Parkland Memorial isn’t alone: abuse of disabled also persists at state-run...
A Legislative report says abuse, neglect persist in state-run living centers for the disabled. Parkland Memorial Hospital isn’t the only Texas institution still facing a serious reckoning over...
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