Tracy Weber

Why Can’t Medicine Seem To Fix Simple Mistakes?

This story was written by by Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein and Marshall Allen of ProPublica. NYU’s Langone Medical Center announced this week that it was adopting new procedures after the death of a 12-year old boy from septic shock. The hospital’s emergency room sent Rory Staunton home in March and then failed to notify his […]

Tracy Weber
By Tracy Weber
Doctors work on a patient during a surgery. (Photo by Army Medicine via Flikr)

This story was written by by Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein and Marshall Allen of ProPublica. NYU's Langone Medical Center announced this week that it was adopting new procedures after the death of a 12-year old boy from septic shock. The hospital's emergency room sent Rory Staunton home in March and then failed to notify his doctor or family of

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Senators Launch Investigation of Pain Group Ties To Drug Companies

By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein A version of this story was published in The Washington Post. As the U.S. Senate Finance Committee launched an investigation Tuesday into makers of narcotic painkillers and groups that champion them, a leading pain advocacy organization said it was dissolving “due to irreparable economic circumstances.” The American Pain Foundation, which described […]

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Charles Ornstein
By Tracy Weber
And Charles Ornstein
black cancer patients

By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein A version of this story was published in The Washington Post. As the U.S. Senate Finance Committee launched an investigation Tuesday into makers of narcotic painkillers and groups that champion them, a leading pain advocacy organization said it was dissolving "due to irreparable economic

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