Healing the system All over the country, the medical boards responsible for the nation's doctors are experimenting with ways to become faster, more efficient and more accountable to the public. Slap on the wrist' for woman's blindness Nicole Hosea is the mother of two children she has never clearly seen. Care decisions cost critically ill tots their lives Andrew King was having trouble breathing when his parents took him to the emergency room at Desert Samaritan Medical Center in Mesa.
Harrowing stories fill medical, legal files An unborn baby slowly starving for oxygen.
A woman whose stomach cancer was treated with antacid pills for two years. A man who died when his doctor didn't show up for emergency surgery. For some readers, seeing the names of their loved ones as part of our ''Bad Medicine'' special report is going to be like a bolt out of the blue. Still practicing Repeat offenders keep working A small core of Arizona doctors is responsible for nearly half of all patient complaints. Medicine is not perfect,' censured doctor says In the past decade, Glendale obstetrician-gynecologist Steven Leibsohn has been blamed in lawsuits or Arizona Board of Medical Examiners records for contributing to the deaths of these four patients and causing harm to others.