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Showing posts with label chicago. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chicago. Show all posts

April 17, 2013

Scam Tracheostomy in Hospital Leading to Arrests

Image from Wikipedia A Chicago hospital owner and a few doctors were arrested in a horrific scandal involving deliberately  over-sedating patients thereby ensuring a patient will not be able to come off the breathing machine leading to the excuse needed to perform a tracheostomy [ link ]. All done in the name for greater profits. This scandal is particularly notable given it has come right at the heels of a New York Times story  which reported that hospitals often profit from surgical err…
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March 24, 2012

Celebrity Chef Grant Achatz With Stage 4 Tongue Cancer

Chicago news recently published a story about their very own celebrity chef Grant Achatz who suffered from Stage 4B squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue. Grant Achatz, chef and co-owner of Alinea/Next/Aviary, approached multiple physicians throughout the country who essentially told him the  oral cancer  was terminal. In the end, he underwent treatment at University of Chicago successfully, though he certainly is not out of the woods yet. There are several approaches in the treatm…
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