The $25-a-month doctor: how a $28 million restitution order became a cup-of-coffee habit
A convicted Texas rheumatologist owes $28 million in restitution. His court-approved payment plan is $25 a month. Dawson Briggs Wilder on what the gap between those two numbers says about accountability in medicine.
A British health worker caught Ebola helping Congo. The flight home says something about medicine
Inside the Royal Free’s sealed isolation tent, a clinician who went to Ituri is being treated for a virus with no vaccine. Phillip Leblanc on the medevac and the 10,000-case epidemic behind it.
Ontario asked its family doctors to work more. Then the fraud unit wrote to the busy ones
A rural family physician opened his mail to find the province’s fraud unit questioning his calendar. Phillip Leblanc on the audit letters that have Ontario’s doctors demanding an apology.
A lung doctor’s kitten got stuck in a wall. He handled it like a day at work
A suburban Chicago pulmonologist turned his day job into a late-night pet rescue, and accidentally gave his specialty its best public explainer in years.