Med school adds penmanship course at Indiana University
Indiana University's medical school will start a penmanship section in the fall to improve doctors handwriting. Dr Antoinette Hood notes doctors write fast under pressure and sloppy writing can cause dangerous drug mixups. Purdue pharmacist Nicholas Popovich supports better legibility for accurate dosages.
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Nicholas Popovich
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Boeing workers sue for job bias in major discrimination suit
A group of 41 minority Boeing employees filed a Superior Court suit alleging racial and gender discrimination, hostile work environment, and discriminatory hiring. They seek back pay, damages, medical costs, and pressure the company to address merit-worthy claims. total allegedly exceeds 82 million dollars.
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VMI Rat Line survivors recount harsh coed entry trials
In Lexington Virginia the first women at Virginia Military Institute describe the Rat Line as intimidating and exhausting yet equal for men and women. Nineteen year old Alexis Abrams and other female cadets say they endured verbal abuse and intense drills alongside male peers while forming strong class bonds.
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Tobacco documents must be released by appeals court ruling
Minnesota Court of Appeals orders 39,000 tobacco internal documents released by noon Thursday in state suit with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota seeking 1.77 billion dollars for treating smoking related illnesses. Defendants plan appeal.
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Secondhand smoking case goes to jurors
A man sues major tobacco firms over his wife Mil dred Wiley's death from lung cancer. McNcik MD AP says Philip Wiley seeks unspecified damages, contending secondhand smoke from her work at a Marion veterans hospital caused the illness. Jurors hear closing arguments. trial began Feb 9, she was 56 in 1991.
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Anti smoking billboard rejected by BART in Oakland
AP report: Bay Area Rapid Transit District refused a Health Through Art: Signs of Recovery message showing a burning cigarette in a lung X ray. BART called the ad tasteless while the nonprofit push for 40 billboards faced rider traffic of about 250,000 daily and strong critique from marketing chief Dennis Machon and project director Tisha Kenney.
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