Monthly Journalism Award
The Washington Monthly Journalism Award FOR FEBRUARY 1993 IS PRESENTED TO James Allen Flanery and David Hendee Omaha World Herald It makes sense that if a doctor injures a patient, the physician...
...Nominations for stories published or aired in May will close June 15...
...These are among the nearly dozen findings reported by Flanery and Hendee in their two-part series illustrating how Nebraska's toothless system of regulating doctors promotes incompetent or negligent care...
...And the state's five-member medical oversight commission (made up entirely of doctors), charged with handling complaints about poor medical care, not only has no office and no staff, but no telephone...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
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...Two copies of the article or broadcast text should accompany the nomination...
...The Washington Monthly Journalism Award FOR FEBRUARY 1993 IS PRESENTED TO James Allen Flanery and David Hendee Omaha World Herald It makes sense that if a doctor injures a patient, the physician should be reported to state health officials, which is why 49 states have such laws on the books...
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...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...The Monthly Journalism Award is presented each month to the best newspaper, magazine, television, or radio story (or series of stories) on our political system...
...So lax is Nebraska's medical regulatory system that one physician was sued for malpractice 18 times in 13 years without facing a single state inquiry into his practices...
...Please send nominations to Monthly Journalism Award, 1611 Connecticut Ave...
...But not Nebraska...
...While Nebraska isn't the only state where medical oversight is sloppy, its problems rank among the nation's worst...
...The winner will be announced in the September issue...
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Vol. 25 • May 1993 • No. 5
