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An interesting turn of events. The medical staff of Washington state Whidbey Health voted a no confidence for their CEO , COO and attorney. Then the CEO fired four administrators who were hired in the last four years to try to right the hospital. One of those fired was the CNO who the staff really liked. This was all done without the Board awareness. The Board then fired the CEO without cause but will remain until a new CEO is hired. It is possible that the fired CNO will become the interim CEO. The Board also found that they had been given erroneous financial updates regarding the hospital and they have significant financial problems. Top
Dr. Edward Suarez of Kendall, Florida, was disciplined by the state board for not telling a patient the results of lab tests which showed the patient to be pre-diabetic and have a high cholesterol. The patient died of a heart attack. Dr. Suarez was fined $7500 and also had to pay $4000 for the osts of the investigation. He was also ordered to take CME in CV diseases and risk management. He was previous disciplined in 1993 for inappropriately prescribing Dilaudid.
When will people learn not to tweet. Another has been taken down. This time it is Dr. Jeffery Lieberman, the now ex-chair of the Columbia University psychiatry department. He tweeted a complementary tweet about a black model and some took it for racist. He was removed from his position. Top
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