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Emergency Medicine

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    PIP Bill Won't Affect Injured People, Former Insurance Fraud Director Says

    ​John Askins spent 24 years in Miami investigating staged accidents, fake injury claims, and other car insurance fraud before going on to head the Florida Division of Insurance Fraud. He retired from government in September but followed this month's new personal injury protection (PIP) reform bill ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    Cops Say Israel Rosado's Farts Were "Unbearable" -- and He Pulled Out His Penis

    ​Israel Rosado was discharged from the emergency room at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center in Fort Pierce on December 17 but told a cop working an off-duty detail at the hospital that he wasn't leaving until he got a free meal.Police say that between that statement and his trip to jail, Rosado pull ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2011

    While Enabling Pain Clinics, Rick Scott's Team Proposes Eliminating Funding for Real Clinics

    ​While it may be exaggeration to say he wants Florida's "pill mills" to stay open, Rick Scott has smacked down a whole bunch of rules that would regulate and monitor their activity. First he announced a freeze on new rules that would help the state crack down on fly-by-night clinics, then he disba ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

    ​While it may be exaggeration to say he wants Florida's "pill mills" to stay open, Rick Scott has smacked down a whole bunch of rules that would regulate and monitor their activity. First he announced a freeze on new rules that would help the state crack down on fly-by-night clinics, then he disba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Eleven Hospitalized After Student Sets Off Pepper Spray at Seagull Alternative High School

    Nine students--some pregnant--and two staff members were hospitalized Friday afternoon when a student attacked another student with pepper spray at Seagull Alternative High School, says the Broward County school board. "The perpetrator has been arrested, there's been a suspension, and an expulsion i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Victims Identified in Boynton Shooting

    Benton Lineau is the name of the man who was driving a gold Lincoln Navigator last night, when he was shot in the chest, say Boynton Beach Police. The 23-year-old, who crashed into a home on the 2000 block of Northeast 3rd Street, died later at Delray Trauma Center.Police were investigating that sho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    Boynton Beach Man Accused of Beating 11-Month-Old Infant

    Jean-Carlo Baptist told police that he was tired and trying to sleep after working a night job, when his 11-week-old daughter wouldn't stop crying. His wife was working at Walgreens at the time. Baptist had told paramedics that his daughter had fallen out of bed, but after questioning by Boynton Bea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Finally - Some Swine Flu Vaccine!

    ​Here's a cut-and-paste press release about where and when you can -- finally -- get the swine flu vaccine. Officials at the Broward County Health Department announced Broward County's first H1N1 Vaccination Clinic which shall be open to all members of the public starting Monday, November 30, 2009 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2009

    Cat in Court Blames Lockjaw on Vet

    Flickr User: lady_meiA cat owner who sued Imperial Point Animal Hospital for malpractice lost her case in Broward court last month. Now she is requesting a hearing in the court of public opinion, where all of us are jurors.Below is a "before" shot of the cat at issue in this case, named Lupita. Two ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2009

    Lost Limbs Worth Zip for Broward Woman

    After eight weeks in trial, a Broward jury absolved several doctors, nurses, and Memorial Hospital West of any wrongdoing in treating Lisa Strong, who lost her forearms and lower legs in a battle to overcome complications from kidney stones. Strong, a 44-year-old mother of two, sought ... More >>

  • News

    January 3, 2008

    Are Hospitals Helping the Homeless?

    Not enough, say some who are learning to fend for themselves

  • Home Entertainment

    January 25, 2007

    Dr. Feelgood

    You're not a doctor, but Trauma Center lets you play one on TV.

  • News

    January 25, 2007

    Going to Plan T

    Obfuscation made things worse in North Broward hospitals, so the brass is trying the truth option

  • News

    February 23, 2006

    Invitation to a Stomping

    On the low-end neck-breaking circuit, only God and America are bigger than bull riding. Just barely.

  • News

    June 17, 2004

    Letters for June 17-23, 2004

    On the low-end neck-breaking circuit, only God and America are bigger than bull riding. Just barely.

  • News

    June 10, 2004

    Half Baked

    Or, how a state law turned an evening of carousing into days of hell

  • News

    March 11, 2004

    A Screw Loose

    Sein Lwin is a political expert. Medicine? Well, that's something else altogether.

  • News

    February 12, 2004

    Hospital Index

    Want to play free golf and stay at the finest hotels in the country?

  • News

    February 5, 2004

    Deliver Us II

    The Broward General maternity ward is gutted by corrupt politics

  • News

    April 20, 2000

    Undercurrents

    The late-night bars and clubs battle continues

  • Film

    October 21, 1999

    Nic at Night

    Bringing Out the Dead

  • News

    September 2, 1999

    You Call This Emergency Planning?

    Thanks to the Red Cross, more than 130,000 Hollywood residents are without a primary hurricane shelter

  • News

    August 6, 1998

    Letters

    Thanks to the Red Cross, more than 130,000 Hollywood residents are without a primary hurricane shelter

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