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Only the naive believe corporations operate with the public good in mind. And it’s lawyers with access to the courts that keep them (somewhat) honest.

The Sacramento Bee’s website makes it possible to find sanctions from the Medical Board of California, as well as doctors’ felony convictions, malpractice judgments and malpractice settlements.

No, the Archives of Internal Medicine survey did not find that 91% of doctors run unnecessary tests for fear of being sued. Nor did a Harvard School of Public Health study show an overabundance of frivolous malpractice suits.

An Assembly committee approves Padilla measure on a bipartisan vote, but lobbyists for hospitals and radiologists warn that provisions could put scare in patients who can be helped.

A two-year investigation by reporters Marshall Allen and Alex Richards found Las Vegas hospitals averaged more than one incident a day of “preventable injuries, life-threatening infections or other harm.”

Some 3,500 nurses who have been disciplined in other states have been licensed to nurse in California, including several hundred who have lost their licenses elsewhere.

The Pop Tort (blog): The New York State Department of Health is participating in a new federally-funded hospital program “where the health industry essentially becomes (or highly influences) the decision maker as to whether malpractice occurred.”