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Some California physicians say a recent settlement between a Ventura hospital and the Dept. of Justice underscores the importance of a self-governing medical staff.

Community Memorial Hospital in December 2007 agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle allegations that the facility gave improper gifts, loans and payments to some doctors in exchange for Medicare patient referrals. No doctors were named in the agreement, and the hospital did not admit any wrongdoing. Community Memorial administrators voluntarily disclosed the financial relationships, which took place under the hospital’s former leadership.

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Brian Bachelder, MD, a family physician in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, supports public health and medical society efforts to extend the influenza vaccination season. But after he used up his supply of vaccine by early December 2007, patients who still needed or wanted it were referred to the local health department.

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There will surely be challenges to adapting the “Tournistrip” to low resource settings, however, it is a cheap and simple way to cut hospital infections due to the high volume reuse of traditional tourniquets. I am just shocked that they don’t already do this in hospitals found in the West:

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