Lawsuit filed to eliminate patient translator requirement
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SAN DIEGO ---- Several doctors and an advocacy group filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to repeal a four-year-old executive order that requires some hospitals and doctors to provide translation services for patients who don&#39;t speak English.
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Workload and doctors who don&#39;t have enough time for patients are cited as causes of medical errors. By Lee Bowman / Scripps Howard News Service.
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British drugmakers are launching a legal  challenge to moves by the state-run National Health Service to  switch large numbers of patients onto cheap generic  prescription medicines.
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Mistakes prompt a demand for grammar to be policed.
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HEALTH Minister Manto TshabalalaMsimang filed a notice to appeal in the Constitutional Court yesterday against Monday&#39;s Supreme Court of Appeals judgment, which scrapped the medicine-price controls.
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Several of the largest health care providers in the county have sued the Sheriff&#39;s Department, claiming they have been shortchanged by at least $1.2 million over the past 15 months for medical care given to sick jail inmates.
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I overheard a long-time hospital client talking to another support vendor today. The hospitalâs patient accounting department was attempting to send patient financial and billing data to a third-party biller. The vendorâs normal Web site was down, and they were trying to come up with an emergency fix.
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Cross-party group wants to remove delays and need for two doctors to approve terminations.
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LOS ANGELES - Proponents of stricter immigration controls are trying to use the courts to make public health officials collect medical fees from the sponsors of legal immigrants who can&#39;t pay their bills.
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The family of a couple paralyzed after they allegedly received an unapproved toxin instead of botox has sued the company that makes the toxin, the clinic where they
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Coping at a hospital when the doctor is in, but the interpreter is out.
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EU plans to make it easier for European patients to seek healthcare within any member state
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U.S. quarantine law is in dire need of an update to protect patient rights, say legal experts.
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A heart patient who had no health insurance is suing Inova Health System, alleging that he was overcharged and subjected to aggressive collection procedures.
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These days, I need more paperwork to see a doctor than I do to buy a house. In my recent quest to see an orthopedist, I encountered a receptionist who wanted my Social Security (news - web
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A leading expert says patients with breathing problems are being forced to travel too far for rehabilitation services.
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Asian seniors nationwide are being urged to call a free help line in Seattle that offers personalized assistance in Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese to apply for one of the new Medicare-approved discount cards for prescription drugs.