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Surgeon Gen. Frank Farmer, a past president of Florida Medical Association, is locked in a friendly struggle with FMA over his desire to protect the public from dangerous doctors. Which way will the Legislature go?
A bill intended to rein in executive pay at child-protection non-profits apparently would apply to many other non-profits, including nursing homes. In other news:
--Nurses sue to block prison health-care outsourcing.
The merger of three large non-profit blood banks, completed today, produces one of the nation's largest.
Florida has too many or the wrong kind of doctors in some places, while other counties scramble to keep even one. Some are trying a grassroots approach to build a network of primary care doctors.
Tallahassee is among the cities that have waiting lists for nursing homes, as the industry struggles to cover costs and the number of prospective patients grows.
Michelle Obama came to Tampa to urge Hispanics to adopt MiPlato, which calls for plenty of fruits and vegetables.
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A CBS story does a good job of illustrating how auto-insurance scams work.
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