DoctorLawyerWatch.com: 2005-2011 Archive

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Heart doctors accuse Renown/Washoe Med of fraud and conspiracy
Reno Gazette-Journal 11-13-2011

The Nevada initiative partially banning smoking in public buildings has resulted in a big drop in hospital admissions for heart attacks and strokes. Too bad casino and bar workers don't enjoy any protection.
Daily Sparks Tribune / 9-18-2011

If you can't win, be spectacular
EXCLUSIVE: Reno Catholic hospital sale rumored
UPDATE: Confirmed, controversial and perhaps corrupt
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-28-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

Jury awards $104 million to LV couple in hepatitis case
AP / Daily Sparks Tribune / 10-13-2011

Las Vegas doctor among 3 indicted in oxycodone pill mill case
Las Vegas Sun / 9-29-2011

Bullshots and bum watches
Streaming video: Washoe DA melts down like a Dali painting on TV
Culinary 226 cuts new deal in the face of Grand Sierra Reno's wholesale outsourcing
Residents opposing Comstock pit mine schedule events
Seniors group endorses Democrat Kate Marshall in 9-13-2011 Nevada special election
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-14-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

State closes LV Nursing home after reports of abuse and theft
Las Vegas Sun / 8-26-2011

Bullfighting in Tonopah, Part Deux
Latest survival bulletins from the High Desert Plantation
Washoe County D.A. defends his instant plea bargain program
Barbwire by Barbano special web edition 8-11-2011
Substantially updated & expanded from the 8-7-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

What's the ugliest part of your body?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-31-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

Dr. Strangelove and Sen. Don the Dumberer
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Daily Sparks Tribune 7-10-2011

July 4 Railroad Jobs: We're Red, White and Screwed
PLEADING POVERTY: Washoe County Commission tries to up D.A.'s quickie conviction rate
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-3-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

Railway engineer gives his perspective on the fiery and fatal Trinity, Nevada, tractor-trailer/AMTRAK crash
UPDATED 7-3-2011

Copyright © 2004-2011
Andrew Barbano

Updated Barbwire.TV statewide broadcast schedule + links to 2009-2011 webstreaming on-demand archive

Shame on NV Energy Demands Power Monopoly Board Chair Philip Satre to Release Internal Report on Ensign-Yackira Scandal
IBEW 1245 / 6-28-2011

Legal malpractice suit reinstated against Las Vegas lawyer Dennis Myron Leavitt

Do No Harm — Health Care Can Hurt You
Las Vegas Sun Continuing Series

Greenspun: Hospitals should examine what ails them, seek cure

Why Nevada Nurses Quit

Lawyer's contempt jailing related to $4 million dispute

State Bar of Nevada reviewing grievance about LVRJ's Righthaven CEO

Unlicensed process server indicted by grand jury

Unlicensed process server under investigation re: false affidavits

Greesnpun: Rise in infection rates, hospitals' reticence are troublesome

Former medical consultant sentenced for failing to report criminal activity

Grand jury indicts Dr. Dipak Desai in hepatitis outbreak

LV Attorney Noel Gage sentenced in felony obstruction case

Medical board suspends licenses of Las Vegas doctors

Crapshoots, trapshoots and turkey shoots
Carrows restaurants run workers into the ground / Washoe DA race starts to rock
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-8-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

DO NO HARM: HOSPITAL CARE IN LAS VEGAS

State to investigate infection findings
The Sun’s investigation into lethal bacteria in Las Vegas hospitals has identified more apparent underreporting by hospitals of the number of times patients are infected at the facilities / Las Vegas Sun 8-9-2010

Nevada State Bar whitewashes TV pitchman and non-practicing lawyer Glen Lerner
Las Vegas Review-Journal 2-2-2010
More of the self-styled heavy hitter's greatest hits...
...and the hits just keep on coming

Running red in a frozen economy
Sparks and Reno face huge fines for labor law violations
Cancerexia: Ralph Lauren boycott widens
Barbwire by Barbano/ Expanded from Daily Sparks Tribune / 12-13-2009

Health care in prime time, ready or not
Barbwire by Barbano/ Daily Sparks Tribune /12-6-2009

If Reform Fails: Health Care, Jobs & Unions LIVE TV Dec. 6
Available to every TV in N/E California and N/W Nevada
Click here to see the show live on your computer
NOTE: The above webstreaming link will not be hot until 5:30 p.m. PST / 01:30 ZULU/GMT, a half-hour before showtime on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009.
Note: The above live link is now disabled.
Click here to view the Dec. 6 show on your computer

Catch the CW network re-run, 9:00 p.m. PST 12-6-2009 /05:00 ZULU/GMT

Turn on, tune in and tell a friend
If Reform Fails: Health Care, Jobs and Unions LIVE TV Dec. 6, 2009
Barbwire by Barbano/ Expanded from Daily Sparks Tribune / 11-29-2009

Give 'em health Harry, part deux
Barbwire by Barbano/ Daily Sparks Tribune / 11-22-2009

Déjà vu all over again
Renown/Washoe Med, always in desperate need of nurses, fires 15 of the best

Message from the Mahatma
Keith Olbermann Exposes Congressional Opponents of Universal Health Care

IMPORTANT: The Laub & Laub law firm, ubiquitous in TV advertising, has been hit with an embarrassing decision for attempting to rip off an injured client. "Instead of doing anything to benefit Mrs. (Raquel) Mora, Laub and Laub simply sought to increase its fees in direct conflict with the law and its clients' interests while purporting to represent her," Judge Robert Perry ruled. "In reaching this decision, the Court is mindful that Laub and Laub has a reported history of conduct wherein it disregarded clients' rights in preference to its own," Perry wrote in zeroing the firm's legal fees in the case and awarding them to Mrs. Mora. (From the 7-26-2009 Daily Sparks Tribune. Download the decision here. Access more Laub laments here.)

EXCLUSIVE: Nevada's experiment in hospital cost mitigation worked — so the state legislature repealed it, naturally.

Cleansing the soap opera of Follytix 2008
Judge in the Sludge + More Charter Cable Trudge
New 2008 Michael Moore film rebroacast schedule on Reno TV
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune / 10-19-2008

The good, the bad and the ugly
Illegal voting machines and killer vaccines
Michigan judge's ruling will affect Nevada cable ratepayers Expanded from the 10-5-2008 Daily Sparks Tribune

Paul Newman: Driven Star
New Michael Moore film premieres on SNCAT this week
Slow progress on saving community radio-TV stations
Expanded from the 9-28-2008 Daily Sparks Tribune

Breaking News: Nurses win first contract at St. Mary's Reno
Washoe Med/Renown nurses also ink deal

Sen. Obama, meet Mr. Durocher
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune / 8-31-2008
Plus: The long lost OSHA labor films Ronald Reagan tried to destroy

Reno-Sparks-Washoe Charter cable channels 16 & 216
High-definition channel 80-295
2:00-4:00 p.m. PDT, 21:00-23:00 ZULU/GMT/CUT/SUT

What may well have been the first marriage of talk radio, talk TV and webcast webchat

Tens of thousands at risk as Nevada health inspection system collapses

Doctors created phony malpractice insurance crisis, voters let them off the hook as a result, and now anxious victims suffer
Shuttered endoscopy center owner was major mover in limiting his own liability

In-office surgery ignored by state
Most free-standing surgical centers go six years between state inspections.
In some cases, Nevada falls far short of even that federal goal.

Who's on Worst?
Nurses organize, governor Hooverized, regents piratize
Is anybody running this show?
Nurses schedule April 10 demonstration in Reno
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune 4-6-2008

Community groups and members asked to write congressional delegation
about $262 million Medicaid budget cuts
Daily Sparks Tribune 3-9-2008

Already in your community and coming soon to a TV set near you
Unnatural Causes, a four-part miniseries:
Is inequality making us sick?

Doctors exploited; patients suffer, too
A government program to address a national health care crisis by placing foreign doctors in America's rural towns and inner cities is being undermined by employers — mostly U.S. doctors who profit by exploiting the physicians and diverting them from the patients who need them.

Complaints lead doctors to dead ends
Las Vegas Sun 12-23-2007

Exploited doctors urged to speak up
Lawmakers all ears, but immigrants fear bosses

Fallout over foreign doctors

No big deal if we don't strictly follow the law, says doctor
who oversees physicians on visas

Rally cry: Investigate accused doctors
Nevada legislators will investigate allegations published in the Las Vegas Sun of employers taking advantage of foreign doctors and abusing the system that allows them to stay in the United States to work in medically underserved areas.

Doctor shortage impacts rural areas

Death in the high desert: Imported doctors have killed Nevadans before

NEW —BARBWIRE.TV

Reno-Sparks-Washoe Charter cable channels 16 & 216
High-definition channel 80-295
2:00-4:00 p.m. PDT, 21:00-23:00 ZULU/GMT/CUT/SUT

What may well have been the first marriage of talk radio, talk TV and webcast webchat

MAJOR EXPOSÉ

Waiting through the pain:
Delays in disability cases long and getting longer

Case studies reveal claimants died while awaiting benefits they deserved

Disabled shouldn’t suffer
Reno Gazette-Journal Editorial
8-1-2006

Editor's Note: Alas and alack, the very important news roundup about disability, above, has been wiped off the face of the web. Many of the news links on this site are from Nevada dailies. In late 2006, the Reno Gannett-Journal began randomly nuking much of its archive as a cockamamie way to pinch pennies. If you encounter any broken links, I encourage you to contact them and send me a copy. On the one hand, they want to build their web traffic in order to increase the price of ads. On the other hand, they are killing that very traffic. Far be it from me to reconcile the Dilbert-style motivations of an outfit for which a 38 percent net profit is not enough. If you can explain it, please enlighten me. — AB

Suit claims Washoe Med violated antitrust laws
Saint Mary's isn't the only health-care provider complaining about Washoe Health's contract negotiations.
Reno Gazette-Journal 8-20-2006
The above link is now stale due to the RGJ's penny-pinching. If anyone has the text, please send it here. Thanks.

Nursing shortage is linked to instructors' salaries
Las Vegas Sun 8-19-2006
Nurses wanted: University officials and legislators set goal
Las Vegas Review-Journal 8-9-2006

Las Vegas Sun Editorial: A plan to stop the "begging"

Campaign fundraising makes judge feel like a hooker on a street corner

Nevada Supreme Court asks judge for briefs on proposal to prohibit direct solicitation
of campaign contributions by judicial candidates
Las Vegas Sun 8-17-2006

Washoe Dist. Judge Brent Adams submits draft code of judicial conduct amendment
to prohibit judges from actively soliciting campaign money
Las Vegas Review-Journal 7-28-2006

Political Writer ERIN NEFF:
Money backing tax and condemnation initiatives isn't from Nevada
The only thing green in the grass-roots efforts behind two statewide ballot initiatives is the flow of cash from a New York City millionaire. His name is Howard Rich…
Las Vegas Review-Journal 8-13-2006

TROJAN HORSE
Two Clark County commissioners say eminent domain ballot question loaded with perks for lawyers and creates new class of lawsuits
Las Vegas Review-Journal 8-13-2006

Washoe Regional Medical Center enters housing business to attract employees; competitors watching
Reno Gazette-Journal 8-13-2006

State-founded malpractice insurer seeks to go private
Las Vegas Review-Journal 8-1-2006

Patients feel abandoned by physicians
They begged and pleaded, but to no avail. Marsha and David Meyer couldn't convince their family doctor to keep them as patients.
Las Vegas Review-Journal 6-14-2006

Lawsuits against doctors decrease but new Nevada law hasn't led to malpractice insurance premium cuts
Las Vegas Sun 3-15-2006

NEW —BARBWIRE.TV

Reno-Sparks-Washoe Charter cable channels 16 & 216
High-definition channel 80-295
2:00-4:00 p.m. PDT, 21:00-23:00 ZULU/GMT/CUT/SUT

What may well have been the first marriage of talk radio, talk TV and webcast webchat

NEW —BARBWIRE.TV

Reno-Sparks-Washoe Charter cable channels 16 & 216
High-definition channel 80-295
2:00-4:00 p.m. PDT, 21:00-23:00 ZULU/GMT/CUT/SUT

What may well be the first marriage of talk radio, talk TV and webcast webchat