A list of serious events some hospitals have to report

At least 27 states require hospitals to report preventable medical errors, usually when a patient dies or is seriously harmed. Missouri hospitals are not required to report these events to the state health department or the public. This list of errors, developed by the National Quality Fo…

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Sole layman on healing arts board is attorney for doctors

The Missouri Board of Registration for the Healing Arts includes eight physicians and one member of the public.

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Attempts at reform leave patients out of the picture

Missouri laws aren't strong enough to protect patients from dangerous doctors, say staff and former members of the state medical board.

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Information about doctors is readily available in other states

Meet Dr. Lynn Norman Carlton — a case study in how little Missouri regulators tell patients about doctors.

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About the series "Who Protects the Patients"

A Post-Dispatch investigation this year has shown how patients are kept in the dark about problems with their doctors and hospitals, and how a disciplinary system seems geared toward protecting doctors’ livelihoods.

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What the Missouri medical board will tell you

What the Healing Arts board will tell you about a doctor:

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Missouri requires extra step to discipline doctors

The Missouri board charged with protecting the public from dangerous doctors has limited authority to do so.

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A felon, fit to practice? Disgraced doctor gets a second chance

He received the harshest penalty allowed by Missouri law. Then he went to work in Illinois.

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State licensing boards must get serious about felony convictions

A doctor involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident. Another convicted of possessing child pornography. A third who pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child — her own child. Two more convicted of fraud.

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Four doctors who were convicted of felonies

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Drugs to treat macular degeneration vary widely in price

The criminal conviction of Dr. Krishnarao V. Rednam started with a billing and dosing fraud involving three drugs.

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Girl, 16, dies during restraint at an already-troubled hospital

The charge nurse found Alexis Evette Richie alone in a small room at SSM DePaul Health Center, motionless and sprawled facedown on a bean bag chair.

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Caution urged with facedown restraints

Aides describe maneuver used.

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Serious medical errors, little public information

You are a reporter looking into medical errors, and you get a tip from multiple sources: In 2007, a surgeon at DePaul Health Center took out the wrong kidney from a patient.

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Doctor lost hospital privileges but kept clean record

When a man died nine years ago at St. Anthony's Medical Center, a panel of doctors there said he had received substandard care from his psychiatrist, Dr. Surendra Chaganti.

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