Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Demanding a retraction and an apology, Southeastern's attorneys complain that not only was undercover patient Caine's aggressive pursuit of surgery unusual, it bordered on entrapment. The clinic's routine procedure of screening patients at least one more time before surgery was mentioned only at the end of the report, after the damning footage...
...News president Lack defends "Cataract Cowboys," calling Southeastern Eye Center's concerns "misplaced." Dateline executive producer Neal Shapiro contends the clinic's attacks come only because Dateline is still "vulnerable" as a result of the GM fiasco. Even the threat of litigation was bad news for image-battered Dateline. Earlier this month, Utah's Orrin Hatch took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to denounce the show for its "false and reckless" claim, aired Aug. 3, that he had introduced legislation that would have benefited a firm in which he holds a financial interest. Dateline's producers...
...second time this year an antiabortion protester has shot a doctor who performs abortions. Rachelle Renae Shannon, 37, of Grants Pass, Oregon, is accused of wounding Dr. George Tiller in both arms outside his Wichita, Kansas, clinic. Shannon is in custody, but Tiller was back at work the next...
...five-year-old daughter to care for already, the Lakebergs were financially strapped. Ken, a welder, had been out of work for a year, and the family had been forced to move after being evicted from a trailer home. So the day after Christmas, Reitha drove to an abortion clinic in Chicago. "She was real sad," says her sister Theresa Hubbell. "She didn't want it done, I could tell, but she figured the doctor told her to do it." The clinic, however, was unprepared to handle the unusual pregnancy and postponed the procedure. She never went back. Though...
...Aller signed his second consent form. The form blandly said the study's "purpose" was "to take people like me off medication in a way that will give the most information about the medication, its effect on me, on others and on the way the brain works." Further, the clinic promised it would use "active medication again to improve ((Aller's)) condition" if he showed "a significant return to symptoms." While the statement said there was a possibility that Greg's condition might worsen, the only pain specifically mentioned was bleeding from injections. As it turned out, the suffering would...