Ian Read, executive chair for the pharmaceutical company, said Gottlieb's "expertise in health care, public policy, and the industry will be an asset," to the company, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from California, Minnesota, and New York.
It's been more than 20 years since a landmark study found nurses were severely underrepresented in news coverage—and a recent replication found that nurses are still sources for only 2% of quotes in health news stories, Kerry Dooley Young writes in a Medscape perspective.
A Veterans Affairs (VA) whistleblower alleges that she was directed to schedule fake appointments in order to improperly remove veterans from electronic wait lists in an effort to hide long wait times at a VA health care facility.