Doctors at hospital chain giant performed unnecessary cardiac surgeries, increasing profits
By REED ABELSON and JULIE CRESWELL
New York Times
In the summer of 2010, a troubling letter reached the chief ethics officer of the hospital giant HCA, written by a former nurse at one of the company’s hospitals in Florida.
In a follow-up interview, the nurse said a doctor at the Lawnwood Regional Medical Center, in the small coastal city […]