Duke in the News: March 17, 2003
Anatomy of a Mistake | For Patients, Unpleasant Surprises in Arbitration | Organ-Donation Official: No Policy Violated, and more ...
Monday, March 17, 2003
ANATOMY OF A MISTAKE
CBS News, March 17 -- As many as 100,000 people die every
year from medical mistakes, yet most of the time, very few people
ever know about it. That changed last month when Duke University
Hospital transplanted a heart and two lungs into Jesica Santillan
-- and admitted it had made a mistake. ...
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FOR PATIENTS, UNPLEASANT SURPRISES IN ARBITRATION
New York Times, March 16 -- More and more health care
providers are pushing for binding arbitration -- in which an
arbitrator or panel of arbitrators unconnected to a case hears
arguments from both sides and renders a decision -- to reduce their
costs. ...
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ORGAN-DONATION OFFICIAL: NO POLICY WAS VIOLATED
(Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer, Mar. 17 -- Until the
Jesica Santillan case, organ procurement agencies never considered
it necessary to double-check behind doctors, said Lloyd H. Jordan
Jr., executive director of Carolina Donor Services. ...
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GLITCHES RIDDLE DATABASE TO TRACK FOREIGN STUDENTS
Chicago Tribune, March 17 -- The computer system intended
to track international students as part of the nation's stepped-up
security routinely loses sensitive information about foreign
students and faculty, according to university officials at Duke and
throughout the country. ...
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SEGREGATED SCHOOLS STILL ENDURE IN PARTS OF SOUTH
Chicago Sun-Times, March 16 -- According to a Duke
University study, private schools still serve as the primary
vehicle for educational "white flight" in rural, predominantly
black stretches of the South. ...Full
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WEARING GRIEF ON THEIR SLEEVES
St. Petersburg Times, March 15 '“ T-shirts commemorating
the deaths of teen-agers are among the latest products in a cottage
industry that profits from death, according to Duke professor Karla
F.C. Holloway. ...
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