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Eat What You Kill: A hospital helped a doctor’s practice flourish even as it suspected he was hurting patients
  • In 2019, two nurses and a pharmacist questioned a Weiner order to apply a fentanyl patch on a 93-year-old woman who was already on opioids and bobbing in and out of consciousness. A nurse texted Weiner to ask whether he was sure. Weiner responded, “Tell them put it on or I will rip their lips off.” Weiner told me this was “an inside joke.”

    What an article.

    Federal regulators also failed to address alarming trends. An analysis of Medicare drug data shows that, from 2013 to 2020, Weiner’s volume of opioid prescriptions ranked ninth among all cancer doctors who bill the program. When it came to morphine, Weiner consistently ranked among the top five. In 2017, he prescribed more morphine than any other cancer doctor. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services did not respond to questions.

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    If a patient wants CPR or a machine to keep them breathing, they elect to be a “full code.” Weiner, the hospital said, had a pattern of altering, without consent, a patient’s status from full code to a DNR/DNI, do not resuscitate and do not intubate.

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    If the residents of Helena had seen those files, they would know how Weiner built a high-volume business that billed as much as possible to public and private insurance, all the while sending numerous patients through a carousel of unnecessary and life-threatening treatments. They would have learned that the hospital had financial incentives to look away.

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    When I asked Weiner why the hospital would publicly accuse him of various types of malpractice but withhold its concerns about his end-of-life care, he said it’s because administrators knew what he was doing and even encouraged it.

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    I may not like it, but also kinda fair.

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    Yes, but also who cares. No need to point out that "technically there's always a chance" because you can do that for basically anything.

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  • South Dakota produced 110% of its electricity demand with just renewables for a year
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  • Is the Wikimedia Foundation about to sell out its editors—and its principles?
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  • Is the Wikimedia Foundation about to sell out its editors—and its principles?
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  • Is the Wikimedia Foundation about to sell out its editors—and its principles?
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    Hopefully not block the entire website in India.

  • Is the Wikimedia Foundation about to sell out its editors—and its principles?
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