Supreme Court Case Involves Medical Malpractice Awards, Medicaid
Supreme Court case involves medical malpractice awards, Medicaid
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25, 2000, at what's now called the Catawba Valley Medical Center, in Hickory, N.C. Sandra Armstrong's obstetrician, Dr. James A. Barnes Jr., delivered the baby by cesarean section, and it didn't go well. Emily suffered severe injuries, … Barnes, it …
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Deficit, Debt and Decline
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HUMAN TARGETS — In a must-read investigation, geographer Joel Wainwright uncovers how the military and US intelligence agencies are becoming increasingly reliant on academic geographers and GIS systems to help them target drone strikes and other …
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Lawyers Stumble, and Clients Take Fall
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Now consider Mr. Smith's lawyer, C. Wade Johnson, who was battling a crippling drug addiction throughout his representation of Mr. Smith. According to a sworn statement from his legal assistant, Mr. Johnson would often turn up at the office intoxicated …
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'Recover to Live': A guide to treating addictions yourself
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with an eye-opening look at addiction. nearly 18 million americans suffer from alcoholism or related problems and over 38 million, over the age of just 12 years old, have used drugs illegally in the past year. in fact, prescription drug abuse now …
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In ‘Sober Houses,’ Heroin Addicts Learn to Help Themselves – This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Tourists come to Zanzibar for its white sand beaches and historic buildings in Stone Town. But something else also makes its way to the Tanzanian island: heroin trafficked across the Indian Ocean from Asia. Most of the heroin shipped through East Africa is headed for Europe and North America. But Reychad Abdool of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says a lot of it stays on the continent. “We know for a fact that heroin is being used in at least thirty countries in Africa. And we also know for a fact that the number of countries reporting injecting drug use, especially of heroin, is also increasing in Africa.” The problem in Zanzibar has led to some creative local solutions. Suleiman Mauly stopped using heroin six years ago. Now he operates a network of so-called sober houses. These are run by addicts themselves to help one another recover. There are nine sober houses — eight for men and one for women. Mr. Mauly himself went through a drug treatment program in Kenya. But it cost around two thousand dollars, he says. Staying in a sober house costs about one hundred dollars a month. Most of the people are supported by their families. Treatment is based on the idea that drug addiction is more of a public health problem than a crime. Mr. Mauly says this is still a new idea to many people. “Because addiction, it’s a disease, and addicts need treatment. But people, they hear that addicts …