George has moved his efforts to his new Web site, My Public Information Station. You'll find higher education administrator compensation info and other documentation there. Come visit!
04/30/2011
08/05/2010
UTHSC Houston President Loses Commuting Money for Pennsylvania Trips
Larry Kaiser of UT-Health Science Center: Still Getting That Sweet Commuting Money? - Houston News - Hair Balls
So is Kaiser still getting the extra dough?
No.
08/03/2010
Driver Looking at Possible Prison Time for Killing UTHSC Doc in Car Crash
The victim had also worked at M.D. Anderson:
Man pleads guilty to killing neurosurgeon in wreck
Man pleads guilty to killing neurosurgeon in wreck
He was arrested just after midnight on Sept. 20, 2006, after police said his pickup slammed into the back of Dr. Roman Hlatky's SUV as they both traveled westbound along Interstate 10. Hlatky, 38, died at the scene. His vehicle hit a signpost near the De Zavala Road exit.
UTMB Reveals Police Chief Applicants
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While waiting for that opinion we continued to talk with UTMB legal people and they agreed to provide the names of the applicants but withhold their employers names until the AG's opinion is received. On that basis we were able to get the following list which bears several names we recognize and many we do not.
08/02/2010
UT Southwestern Resident Scandal Going National
As I said yesterday, this story has gotten away from UT Southwestern administration, and now, with the Chronicle of Higher Education's and Inside Higher Ed's reporting on the scandal, people are reading about UT Southwestern's resident woes from coast to coast.
Medical Residents at Dallas Hospital Operated With Little or No Supervision, Newspaper Reports - The Ticker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Medical Residents at Dallas Hospital Operated With Little or No Supervision, Newspaper Reports - The Ticker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
The newspaper said its review of records and interviews with current and former staff members of the medical center and the hospital, Parkland Memorial, suggested a near reversal of power between residents and the faculty members who oversee them at Parkland.
Click on the highlighted text to see Inside Higher Ed's take on the story.
08/01/2010
UT Southwestern Residency Program: Dallas Morning News Reveals Damning Allegations
This story is a "must read" for anyone following the UT Southwestern and Parkland Hospital residency supervision scandal. In this relatively long article, the Dallas Morning News provides a great deal of new information, not to mention links to the side of the article that provide background information. If it was not before, this story is out in the open, in the mainstream now, and UT Southwestern is going to have to deal with it one way or the other. The last reporter to really take on UT Southwestern was Robert Riggs of Fort Worth's Channel 11. Although Riggs used the Texas Public Information Act to get a great deal of documentation to substantiate his allegations, he lost his job. It is my hope that DMN reporters fare better.
UT Southwestern faculty let unsupervised resident doctors operate at Parkland | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News
UT Southwestern faculty let unsupervised resident doctors operate at Parkland | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News
"The faculty that hold them accountable get lower residency review scores and, therefore, that affects their promotion and tenure," the former Parkland administrator said. "The easiest thing to do is just let the residents do what they want to do if you want to get promoted."
07/31/2010
Patient Data Stolen
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Laptop theft puts Texas Children's patient info at risk | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Notifying letters were mailed to parents of the affected children, cardiology patients of a Baylor College of Medicine doctor who practices at Texas Children's. Such notice is required by state, federal and international law.
A Lawsuit Lesson on Sovereign Immunity
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In 2003, as treatment for breast cancer, Cynthia Malveaux underwent a lumpectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. When she sought breast-reduction surgery in 2006, physicians told Mrs. Malveaux that the radiation rendered the tissue in her right breast inoperable. But Dr. Lisa Gould, a surgeon at UTMB, disagreed and maintained that she could operate on the irradiated tissue. On July 19, 2006, Dr. Gould performed a bilateral reduction mammoplasty on Mrs. Malveaux at UTMB. After the surgery, Mrs. Malveaux's right breast failed to heal, and she suffered extensive ulceration and fat necrosis. As a result, Mrs. Malveaux has undergone numerous procedures, including an unsuccessful skin graft and a total mastectomy of her right breast.
07/30/2010
More from a Deposition on the UT Southwestern and Parkland Hospital Resident Supervision Saga
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UT Southwestern and Parkland Hospital Stories: UT Southwestern and Parkland: Is Ron Anderson Clear About Faculty Supervision Requirements?
8 Q. Dr. XXXX on February the 28th 2008, wrote to
9 his superior, Dr. Rege, and he included Dr. Minei. Dr.
10 XXXXX advised that as follows: I would like to bring to
11 your attention as chairman of the Department of Surgery
12 at UT Southwestern and as surgeon in chief of Parkland
13 respectively, that the issue of patient consent and the
14 attending's participation in operative procedures at
15 Parkland Hospital remains unresolved.
16 Attached is a PDF of my operative note from
17 2/23/08 when I was on call. This patient underwent an
18 open below knee amputation prior to my arrival in the
19 plating room and I never had any opportunity to meet the
20 patient preoperatively.
21 Per your previous advice at the beginning of my
22 shift I let the residents know that I wanted to meet
23 every patient preoperatively and examine them. I also
24 asked the residents to call me before starting any
25 operative procedure. In this particular case neither of
21
1 my instructions were followed with the result that I
2 never had the opportunity to examine the patient
3 preoperatively and the amputation was completed before I
4 arrived in the operating room. In addition, the consent
5 form did not list me as the operating surgeon.
6 As both of you are aware from previous
7 discussions in several departmental and divisional
8 meetings, this is a recurrent systematic problem that
9 needs to be fixed. I would also like to mention that
10 this practice is not consistent with my standard of care
11 and places me in a very difficult situation ethically,
12 morally and legally. Please advise.
07/29/2010
Could This Be What Happened to a Former UTMB Police Chief Candidate?
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Some say this is in the works and it's the reason Wiley withdrew his application for the Police Chiefs job at UTMB. There is a lot of speculation over who's idea it was but donut gossip says when it looked like Wiley was bailing out of the GPD, city hall bigwigs started scambling for a way to hold on to him.
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