<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Health Care Issues</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/health/healthcare?nav=rss_health/healthcare</link><description>Health Care Issues</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Experts Dispute Remark That Living Wills Save Money]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41414-2005May6.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41414-2005May6.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:03:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said this week that encouraging senior citizens to write living wills could dramatically reduce Medicare's skyrocketing health care costs.]]></description><author> Ceci Connolly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doctors Are Warned on Fetus Care]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10411-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10411-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:03:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bush administration issues guidelines advising physicians and hospitals that they are obligated to care for fetuses "born alive" naturally or in the process of an abortion.]]></description><author> Ceci Connolly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disparities Cited for Medicare Drug Benefit]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64015-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64015-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:03:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The prescription drug benefit available next year will cost senior citizens an average of $722 annually, but retirees with chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease can expect to pay about double that amount and face gaps in their coverage, a new study finds.]]></description><author> Ceci Connolly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Establishing Proof]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64052-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64052-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:03:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It took 15 years to discover the link between oxygen and blindness -- 15 years in which a mysterious disease haunted America's best hospitals.]]></description><author> David Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Calls for Doctor Oversight Hearing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51179-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51179-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:03:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Council member David A. Catania said the hearing is in response to a series of Washington Post articles that reported the medical board rarely disciplines troubled doctors.]]></description><author> Cheryl W. Thompson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Track Record of Lies And of Job Dismissals]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44902-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44902-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:03:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Physician Mahmoud Nemazee has had career problems over the past 18 years, but he has always resurrected himself by moving on  --  to a new job in a new place.]]></description><author> Cheryl W. Thompson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red Flags About Md. Man Ignored]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44901-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44901-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:03:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Obstetrician-gynecologist Jeffrey M. Levitt needed a job, and Stuttgart, Ark., needed an OB-GYN. So the country town about an hour southeast of Little Rock was prepared to overlook the warning signs.]]></description><author> Cheryl W. Thompson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Multiple State Licenses Helped Conceal History]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44900-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44900-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:03:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After physician Joseph S. Hayes was charged in 1999 with fondling female patients  --  but before he was convicted  --  he simply pulled out a different state license and moved. He left Tennessee and got a job at a wellness center in South Carolina, where he had held a license since 1973.]]></description><author> Cheryl W. Thompson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicians Outrun Poor Records, Pasts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44899-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44899-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:03:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Facing problems in one state, hundreds of  doctors simply moved and restarted their careers despite a system designed to prevent just that.]]></description><author> Cheryl W. Thompson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite Deaths, Doctor Kept License]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42457-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42457-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_health/healthcare</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:03:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The District board ignored an administrative law judge's recommendation to revoke OB-GYN Gideon M. Kioko's license, despite public pleas and a history of incidents in Maryland.]]></description><author> Cheryl W. Thompson</author></item></channel></rss>