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charlesornstein

  1. When Doctors Grieve nyti.ms/KRjPnw about 23 hours ago via Tweet Button
  2. RT @Poynter Oh the inory: Denver Post announces it's eliminating copy desk, misspells headline journ.us/MBX84H 8:48 AM May 26th via Twitter for iPhone
  3. RT @nytimes: Game Is Designed to Help Doctors to Spot Drug Abuse nyti.ms/LwpwlQ 8:04 PM May 25th via Twitter for iPad
  4. RT @washingtonpost: Pom tests limits of FTC power with ad campaign, wapo.st/Kh96Bx 6:22 PM May 25th via Twitter for iPhone
  5. Lawsuit: Bay Pines VA sends suicidal woman three months worth of pain pills bit.ly/KTOTPv 2:38 PM May 25th via TweetDeck
  6. Suffolk Cty Grand Jury: "Improper prescribing of analgesic opioids for treatment is reckless...a patient easily becomes addicted." 11:51 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
  7. Suffolk County Grand Jury on opioids: "The professions relinquished their collective best judgment and accepted the advertising as true." 11:45 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
  8. Pharma rep says IOM inflated # of people in chronic pain. Probably closer to 30 mil than 100 mil, per report (pg 86): bit.ly/JCk8Uf 11:40 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
  9. US accounts for ~4.6% of the world‘s population but consumes 80% of the global opioid supply, Suffolk Cty Grand Jury: bit.ly/JCk8Uf 11:38 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
  10. Must read: Suffolk County Grand Jury report that blames prescribers for opioid abuse epidemic. bit.ly/JCk8Uf 11:37 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
  11. ICYMI, Health Journalism 2013 will be in...Boston! And it falls over St. Patrick's Day weekend. bit.ly/JCiq5b #ahcj13 11:19 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
  12. Thanks @LizSzabo! 10:46 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
  13. ProPublica's Patient Harm Community on Facebook has more than 500 members. Are you one of them? on.fb.me/KDXqG7 10:33 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
  14. When it came to pensions, state officials looked out for No. 1: Themselves. Great #muckreads by Chicago Tribune: trib.in/JrJ92S 10:24 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
  15. Need A Nurse? You May Have To Wait n.pr/LnGHXi (Interestingly, nurses would talk to NPR only anonymously) 10:16 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
  16. Contrast how health reform treats legal immigrants (politi.co/IYhq5c) and illegal ones (politi.co/LnxvlA). Big difference. 9:38 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
  17. Generic-drug makers’ complaints over brand-name access prompt investigations wapo.st/LnxG0j 9:33 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
  18. Even if Obamacare is upheld by Sup Ct., one group will be SOL: Undocumented immigrants: politi.co/LnxvlA 9:32 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
  19. Fed regulators have cited four Veterans Affairs medical facilities in N. Calif. for 25 health and safety violations: bit.ly/JysSWz 8:52 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
  20. Kinda like what's going on with foreclosure settlement: CDC Report Finds States Spend Only A Fraction Of Tobacco Funds To Fight Smoking 7:46 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
  • Name Charles Ornstein
  • Location New Jersey
  • Web http://www.propub...
  • Bio Senior reporter at @ProPublica, president of Assn. of Health Care Journalists, hopeful Detroit Lions fan. charles.ornstein@propublica.org
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