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$903k awarded to widow of government official killed by Kaiser

August 31st, 2007 at 9:15 am » Comments (1)

From SignOnSanDiego.com:
$903,000 awarded to councilman’s widow
By Cheryl Clark
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
SAN DIEGO — The late San Diego Councilman Charles Lewis was never told by his longtime Kaiser physician Willie Thigpen that he had a serious liver disease and that drinking alcohol would hasten his death, an arbitration judge has ruled.
The judge, Kevin Midlam, awarded $903,000 to [...]



Kaiser Doctor Accused Of Speeding Organ Donor Death

July 30th, 2007 at 6:21 pm » Comments (6)

From KTVU.com:
LOS ANGELES — A surgeon with close ties to the Bay Area was charged Monday with prescribing excessive drugs to a comatose, disabled patient to hasten his death and harvest his organs for transplantation.
It’s the first such criminal case against a transplant doctor in the United States, the San Luis Obispo County district attorney’s [...]



Kaiser NW ordered to pay $4.5 million for misdiagnosed brain tumor

July 25th, 2007 at 7:19 pm » Comments (5)

[kaiserthrive.org editor's note: This is far from an isolated incident. We hear from people on a regular basis who have been referred to Kaiser Behavioral Health because their doctor can't figure out what is wrong with them. It is ingrained in the Kaiser culture to blame the patient rather than question the competence of [...]



Terry McEnany, MD: the original Kaiser Permanente Dr. Death

July 22nd, 2007 at 12:40 am » Comments (7)

The Kaiser Papers has just posted a detailed declaration by whistleblower Dr. William Moores, in the case of past Kaiser San Francisco Medical Center Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery, Dr. Terry McEnany. This guy was so incompetent and dangerous he makes Jayant Patel look like Marcus Welby, MD.
This is one of the most egregious cover [...]



Kaiser Permanente’s Prominent Role in American Health Care Deform

June 26th, 2007 at 2:37 pm » Comments (9)

The impending release of Michael Moore’s scathing indictment of the US Health Care industry, ‘SiCKO’ — which features one Kaiser Permanente scandal after another — has the Kaiser PR goons working overtime. With their usual intent to baffle, befuddle and bamboozle, they would like to convince you to disbelieve what you see and hear [...]



Numerous failures in Kaiser pharmacy lead to infant death, federal report finds

June 9th, 2007 at 4:41 pm » Comments (8)

From KGO TV:
Federal Report On Kaiser Infant Death
By Karina Rusk
Jun. 8 - KGO - ABC7 News has obtained the federal report on a tragic infant death at Kaiser Santa Clara. We were the first to report on the tragic death earlier this year.
The 19-page report focuses on an infant death in February caused by medical [...]



George Halvorson: “We really did screw up”

May 18th, 2007 at 1:41 pm » Comments (5)

[...] It should be noted that although Halvorson admitted that Kaiser screwed up, they have behaved just as despicably in the handling of the investigation and lawsuits as they always do. The fact that the only people who were fired from the program were those who tried to advocate for the patients, reveals the huge discrepancy between what Kaiser says and what they do. [...]



Kaiser defies medical board, stalls malpractice investigation

May 10th, 2007 at 6:40 pm » Comments (7)

From the Orange County Register:
Kaiser Permanente in Anaheim defies Medical Board
The state is investigating possible malpractice by a physician in Anaheim, but the hospital won’t release patient names without a court order.
By BLYTHE BERNHARD
The state attorney general wants to force Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Anaheim to release the names of two patients who [...]



Another Kaiser Permanente cancer horror story

April 20th, 2007 at 11:37 am » Comments (0)

[Promoted from the comments:]
I can truly say that I sympathize with this family. When I read this story, I felt like I was reliving a nightmare.
My mother had Kaiser as her health plan from the 1970?s till she died in 1991. Her story is very similar. In Ohio, Kaiser no longer has it?s own ?hospital [...]



Kaiser doctors forgot to read x-ray, patient dies

March 22nd, 2007 at 7:19 am » Comments (5)

Kaiser Doctors Forgot to Read X-Ray, Delayed Treatment For 18 Months Leading to Patient Death
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. — A New Carrollton woman is suing a Kaiser health plan and its doctors saying they first neglected to read her husband’s chest x-rays for eight months and then delayed needed treatment for nearly a year, resulting [...]