What Happens When Your Doctor Loses His Medical License?
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- Written on: February 16th, 2007
A week or so ago I went to Family Med Center in Omaha, NE to talk with my doctor about my blood sugar and my family’s history of type 2 diabetes. I thought it was a bit odd that there was a sign on the door stating that many insurance providers were no longer paying for visits with Dr. Brown, but I didn’t see my insurance company, so I didn’t think too much about it. Then I saw the news last night.
KETV Channel 7 in Omaha, NE reported in an exclusive news story that Dr. Robert Brown (the doctor that apparently owns the clinic my family goes to) had his license to practice medicine suspended on February 1, 2007 by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services for 30 days and has been placed on probation for 3 years. Back in July, the DEA suspended Brown’s license to prescribe controlled substances.
According to KETV, Dr. Brown is charged with overprescribing pain medication to his patients without maintaining the proper records that would indicate a need for the pain medication at the levels prescribed. Two of those patients have since died from overdoses of pain medication. One unnamed 35-year old male patient had 755 nanograms of Oxycontin per milliliter in his system when he died. The complaint against Brown indicates the normal therapeutic range is 10 to 40 nanograms per milliliter.
The 10 Days of Home Edition Version 2 – Automatic Updating is NICE!
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- Written on: February 16th, 2007
This post is the third in a 10-post series about the all-new version 2 of the Maintenance Checkup Home Edition (MCHE) computer maintenance software from Schrock Innovations. You can win a FREE 2-year subscription by simply posting a comment on any of the MCHE posts. Only one free subscription will be given away, so post multiple comments or questions with your valid email address to increase your odds of winning!
The most critical component of any security software is an accurate and up-to-date malware detection database. Even the best security program is worthless if it does not stay current with the latest threats to your security and privacy.
The 2005 version of the Maintenance Checkup Home Edition (MCHE) did this by prompting you to update if new updates were available. Each time you updated with the 2005 version, it downloaded all detections for all infections, every time.
While the all-new version 2 of the MCHE is also heavily dependent on updates to keep you protected, it considers an update to be just that an update to its existing database of malware infections. The MCHE now only downloads the information it does not already know from our update server. This means your updates are smaller and consequently they complete faster.
