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Right arm of the Confederate Captain Henry Wirz, who was cut off after the execution for war crimes, is on display in a container of preservative.

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Request for temporary doctor riding in the middle of the worsening shortage of doctors …

Doctor shortage worsening means more jobs for doctors on temporary employment, but it can be trouble ahead for patients seeking medical professionals as more Americans get health benefits under the ACT to care affordable.

As health reform is implemented in the next two years, millions of Americans with a transition period, the request is expected to flood medical care physician offices, clinics and hospitals as they gain health care coverage by 2014.

The other side of the nation’s worsening shortage of doctors can be seen in recent reports of the care staff, Irving, Texas-based physician staffing company and subsidiary of AMN Healthcare (AHS). The company says the medical groups and hospitals are not able to find enough doctors they need permanent and shift more and more to what the industry calls “Pastor tenens” physician.

“In a down economy, people are not seeing doctors unless they have to, either to avoid any deductibles or because they are not insured-and still no doctor is enough to go around,” said staff care President Sean Ebner.

There are also some doctors to fill all available Vacancies, said Ebner. The company, the nation’s largest physician staffing company, said a number of temporary “full day” for its clients rose to 183,252 last year from 181,834 in 2010 even in the period in which hospitals and health facilities suffered cuts in government health insurance program that pays them.

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Charges stand in hep c case against former doctor

After losing the battle of almost two years to show he was physically and mentally unfit for trial, Dipak Desai sat quietly in the courtroom when the Clark County District Court judge Valerie Adair ruled the indictment grand jury meets the requirements of legislation and constitutional.

Adair confessed the cost may be more obvious. But he Richard Wright’s lawyers rejected the argument that the 35-page indictment returned in June 2010 is unconstitutionally vague and confusing. Trial is scheduled in October.

Prosecutors alleged that Desai directed penny pinching on schema-Endoscopy Center of his Southern Nevada and the desert shadow Endoscopy Center which included requiring staff to use anesthesia which remains in the Cup before it opened and returned the colonoscopy scope and bite plate from patient to patient for outpatient procedures.

Health officials in Southern Nevada district in February 2008 began to tell more than 50,000 Desai patients to be tested for HIV and hepatitis. Authorities later determined that nine people contracted the incurable hepatitis C, and says the cases involving another 105 patients may be related.

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Doctors in tobacco ads facing bankruptcy; the House is now being covered

But now Dr. La Donna Porter came under fire from a group of tobacco control and another doctor who convinced doctor of tobacco–a registered Republican who once campaigned for toxic chemicals–is in it for the money and paid for by tobacco companies. Public records indicate that he was fighting to save a home from foreclosure and lift himself financially from two personal bankruptcy.

But in an exclusive interview with this newspaper, challenged Porter’s husband defended himself, denied that his wife had paid for her work against proposition 29.

“We do not know anyone in the tobacco industry,” said John Porter of the couple’s home in Wilton, 25 miles from Sacramento. “They do not offer money. And I’ve been with her every step.

Porter said he was “disgusted” by what he called “character assassination” against his wife.

“She is a woman who has a big heart for the people he serves,” she said. Criticism “has been painful. My wife is the most simple, most loyal. … It’s nauseating. “

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12 Investigates: medical mix up

The investigation revealed a pharmacist technician NBC12 in Virginia made a mistake and it happens more often than you make think. The wrong dose of meds or can make you sick and, in extreme cases, it can even kill you.

In our review of hundreds of pharmaceutical Board notes from 2008 until April 2012, we found the error 94 across the Commonwealth. In the case of 42, was given a drug to the patient. 30 times that dosage was wrong. On the occasion of a pill bottle mislabeled, 22. And these are just the cases that are reported to the Virginia Board of pharmacy.

Small amount compared with the millions of prescriptions filled in five years, but the mistake that we uncover sent dozens of people, including children, hospital.

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