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By Carol Gentry
2/8/2010 © Health News Florida
The state Department of Health's decision to withhold information on its consumer web site about pending actions against health professionals -- including arrests --- is entirely appropriate, say attorneys who defend doctors. The public's reaction was different. As one woman said, "I was horrified."
 2/6/2010 © Gainesville Sun
Sen. Bill Nelson says President Obama should "put on a pair of brass knuckles and get out a bull whip" to force the House to adopt the Senate's health-care plan. He made the comments Friday, before the President invited Republicans to a public discussion of ideas.
2/7/2010 © Florida Times-Union
With Medicaid gobbling more of the already-strained state budget, lawmakers know they have to do something. But nobody wants to be the one to cut programs for pregnant women, children and sick people.
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Accused killer saw govt. conspiracy 2/8/2010 © St. Petersburg Times
 John Kalisz, accused triple murderer, was an alcoholic who got sober in 1990 with the help of AA, friends say. But in December 2008 his stability unraveled, and he began to talk about how FEMA was planning to set up concentration camps.
Meek anti-bidding bill gains support 2/8/2010 © HME Newswire
FL Rep. Kendrick Meek's bill to repeal the Medicare competitive bidding program on home health equipment has grown to 140 co-sponsors, and the industry is pushing to get more. In other news, Clearwater-based Lincare -- one of the U.S.' largest home-oxygen companies -- announced that it will buy a smaller competitor, Gentiva.
'I don't see the world the same way' 2/8/2010 © Sarasota Health News
In a devastated Haitian town soon after the earthquake, Sarasota surgeon David Sugar says, he and his colleagues had to improvise. They scrubbed in with hand sanitizer, sterilized instruments in betadine and iodine, used ketamine for anesthesia and cleaned maggot-infested wounds with bleach, betadine and peroxide.
Uninsured, RollerGirl put up with pain 1/29/2010 © Tallahassee Democrat
Tallahassee RollerGirls are raising money for teammate Stephanie Little, who was diagnosed with late-stage cervical cancer in October. She put off going to the doctor for months, despite pain, until the day her health insurance kicked in.
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