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Making the Cut: Why Choosing the Right Surgeon Matters Even More Than You Know
by Marshall Allen and Olga Pierce ProPublica Patient Safety Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Making the Cut Why choosing the right surgeon matters even more than you know by Marshall...
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Road Hazard: How the ‘Embarrassing’ Gas Tax Impasse Explains Washington
by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with Politico. In 1993, the Dow Jones industrial average was still well under 4,000, the best-selling car in the country was the Ford Taurus, and the...
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When It Comes to Patient Safety, There’s A Problem. Ask A Spinal Surgeon...
by Terry Parris Jr. The issue of patient safety bubbled to the forefront of American healthcare in 1999 when the Institute of Medicine released "To Err Is Human" — a landmark report on the startling...
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Judges Revive Claim that AT&T Overcharged Schools for Internet Service
by Jeff Gerth For seven years, a Wisconsin telecom consultant has waged an unsuccessful legal fight against AT&T, alleging that the company long defrauded a federal program by overcharging the...
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Senator to Red Cross: Where’s the Transparency on Haiti?
by Justin Elliott The American Red Cross met a deadline this week to answer congressional questions about how it spent nearly half a billion dollars donated after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, but the...
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When It Comes to Patient Safety, There’s A Problem. ProPublica’s Patient...
by Terry Parris Jr. Read the FULL discussion here. The issue of patient safety bubbled to the forefront of American healthcare in 1999 when the Institute of Medicine released "To Err Is Human" — a...
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The New American Slavery Requires An H-2 Visa And More In MuckReads Weekly
by Terry Parris Jr. h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email?...
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FDA Examines Whether MRI Drugs Accumulate in Brain Tissue
by Jeff Gerth The Food and Drug Administration announced today it is investigating the risk of brain deposits for patients who are given repeated MRIs using imaging drugs that contain a heavy metal....
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Photos: Baltimore in the Wake of Freddie Gray
by Edwin Torres ProPublica Segregation Now play sound Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate State of Emergency Photos by Edwin Torres for DailyMail.com, text special to ProPublica July 28,...
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Editor’s Note: ‘Dr. Abscess’ and Why Surgeon Scorecard Matters
by Stephen Engelberg We’ve had a remarkable response in the two weeks since we published Surgeon Scorecard. The online database has been viewed more than 1.3 million times by people looking up...
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Georgia is Segregating Troublesome Kids in Schools Used During Jim Crow
by Marian Wang Georgia has been illegally and unnecessarily segregating thousands of students with behavioral issues and disabilities, isolating them in run-down facilities and providing them with...
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The FBI Built a Database That Can Catch Rapists — Almost Nobody Uses It
by T. Christian Miller This story was co-published with The Atlantic. QUANTICO, Va. — More than 30 years ago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched a revolutionary computer system in a bomb...
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Alabama’s Meth Lab Law, Abortion Rights and the Strange Case of Jane Doe
by Nina Martin In 2006, Alabama lawmakers passed a bill aimed at punishing parents who turned their kitchens and garages into do-it-yourself meth labs, exposing their children to toxic chemicals and...
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Police Car Chases Have Killed More Than 5,000 People Since 1979 (MuckReads...
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Amid Drought, California Experiments With Leasing Water Rights
by Abrahm Lustgarten This analysis was co-published with the Los Angeles Times. Last fall, farmers working the flat land along the Colorado River outside Blythe, California, harvested a lucrative crop...
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Feds Call for More Scrutiny of Nursing Home Errors Involving Blood Thinner
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with The Washington Post. The federal government is asking health inspectors nationwide to be on the lookout for errors by nursing homes in managing the...
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Why We’re Investigating the Impact of Agent Orange
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that some 2.6 million Americans who served...
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Could Scott Walker’s Legal Victory Expand PAC Superpowers?
by Robert Faturechi A Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling on Gov. Scott Walker's campaign practices clears the way for state candidates to work more closely with legally independent political groups and...
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‘Stay Far, Far Away’ and Other Things Gleaned From Yelp Health Reviews
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with NPR's Shots blog. Dental patients really don’t like Western Dental. Not its Anaheim, California clinic: “I hate this place!!!” one reviewer wrote...
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Capitol Case: Robert Freeman’s Enduring Fight Against Government Secrecy
by Joaquin Sapien Robert Freeman has been helping people extract public information from New York state agencies for four decades. He is the executive director of the New York Committee on Open...
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