Mondo Calamari; Doctors; Lawyers; HMOs; Darwin Awards

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• In a First, Camera Catches Live Giant Squid
  “Four hours and 13 minutes after becoming snagged, the attached tentacle broke, as seen by sudden slackness in the line,” the authors wrote. Once on the surface “the recovered section of tentacle was still functioning,” they continued, “with the large suc
  (tags: biology animals science)
• Doctors call for emergency help
  California emergency room physicians, more than 260 of whom participated in Tuesday’s mass rally, said the crisis in the state is worsening by the day, caused in large measure by the rising numbers of uninsured and skyrocketing costs of providing uncompen
  (tags: EM EMTALA safety_net)
• Judge OK’s HMO Settlements With Doctors
  U.S. District Court Judge Federico Moreno on Monday signed off on the settlements reached by Health Net Inc. and Prudential Financial Services with about 950,000 doctors nationwide.
  (tags: physicians insurers HMOs)
• Hospital Skipped Its Own Patients – Los Angeles Times
  Surgeons at St. Vincent Medical Center bypassed nine of the hospital’s own patients on a regional liver transplant waiting list before they inappropriately gave the organ to a Saudi national who ranked 52nd, hospital officials said Tuesday.
  (tags: physicians hospitals)
• Gas thief found asleep at the scene of the crime
  Police think if Hodson hadn’t fallen asleep he just may have gotten away with this one.
  (tags: beyond)
• The chief executive officer and another top official of a city hospital knowingly gave dozens of altered documents to plaintiffs’ attorneys in a medical malpractice case, according to court testimony.
  Ann Marie Zimmerman, risk manager of Mercy Hospital, testified that she provided 67 altered documents at the direction of a hospital attorney, even though she, the attorney and CEO James May knew the documents had information deleted from them.
  (tags: ethics lawyers malpractice)