Compassion; FEMA; Lawyers; Organs

By symtym | 9.28.05

More GCs Put Outside Litigators on a Budget

In a trend that’s picking up steam, corporate counsel are increasingly requiring outside litigation firms to submit detailed budgets from the outset of a case. Corporations like getting the budgets partly because they can also be benchmarks for larger eva

(tags: lawyers)

Hospital Halts Organ Program

Hospital staff members then falsified documents several times to cover up the alleged maneuver, pretending that the transplant was for a patient who was near the top of the regional waiting list, hospital President and Chief Executive Gus Valdespino confi

(tags: health_fraud ethics)

Former FEMA director blames state,local officials in hurricane response failures

“My biggest mistake was not recognizing by Saturday that Louisiana was dysfunctional,” two days before the storm hit, Brown told a special congressional panel set up by House Republican leaders to investigate the catastrophe.

(tags: FEMA disasters)

Compassion 101: Teaching M.D.s to Be Nicer

Medical educators call it the “hidden curriculum” — the negative messages medical students get in front-line, residency training that seem to contradict everything they had been taught about ethical behavior, compassionate care and professionalism. Resea

(tags: medicine physicians ethics patients)

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cardioNP 10/06/2005 03:39 PM 1 point
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believed that the patient was an impoverished Bedouin and that the doctor didn't know if he would be compensated.

Baloney! I worked at St. Vincents in the late 80s, early 90s and participated in the care of some of the renal txplt patients. There were many Saudi patients who were living for months to years in nearby apartments, at the expense of the Saudi government, while awaiting their transplants. It was common knowledge that the Saudi gov't had deep pockets and was footing the bills.

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