Category: Healthcare
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Broward General and other hospitals losing their names in marketing campaign
By Buddy Nevins
BrowardBulldog.org
A plan to change the name of Broward General Medical Center, the county’s oldest hospital, and the names of three other public hospitals has physicians and others protesting. -
State ethics board finds it likely that ex-Broward Health commissioner broke law; does nothing
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
The Florida ethics commission has found probable cause to believe that Fort Lauderdale consultant Joseph Cobo had business conflicts that “interfered with his public duties” as a North Broward Hospital District commissioner. -
Constitutional amendment proves no guarantee to opening up hospital records to patients
By Amber Statler-Matthews
BrowardBulldog.org
Harlan Ginsberg of Coral Springs was rushed to Margate’s Northwest Medical Center in 2006 after a kidney stone attack. During surgery to remove the stone, he says, a doctor mistakenly cut a tube that delivered urine to his bladder and removed a kidney that another doctor testified was healthy. -
BSO’s boner: Inmate says five-day erection, impotence followed medication mistake
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
A former Broward County Jail inmate says he became impotent after he was forced to swallow a powerful anti-psychotic drug he wasn’t prescribed, then suffered a painful erection for five days before nurses and jailers finally responded to his pleas for help. -
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Hospital commissioner dodges a legal bullet but still faces ethics investigation
By Thomas Francis
BrowardBulldog.org
The Broward State Attorney’s Office will not file criminal charges against Joseph Cobo, a powerful hospital commissioner accused of exploiting his public position for private gain. But prosecutors who investigated those allegations found reason to alert the state’s ethics enforcement board. -
Broward cardiologist and GOP fundraiser Zachariah cleared of insider stock trading charges
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
In a stinging rebuke to the government, a federal judge Monday cleared Fort Lauderdale heart doctor and top Republican fundraiser Dr. Zachariah P. Zachariah of civil insider stock trading charges.
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