Former oncologist claims Kaiser Permanente pushed profits over patient care, files $7 million lawsuit
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/04/former_oncologist_claims_kaise.html
Kaiser Patient: Infection Was Ignored
Due to 'Weekend' Patient ended up a quadriplegic.
WASHINGTON
(CN) - A man has sued Kaiser for $5 million, alleging that he
nearly died when labs showed a "significant infection" but he was not
treated or even notified because it was "the weekend." The infection
was in his spine and resulted in quadriplegia and complete disability,
his complaint says.
October 4, 2012 - George Halvorson reported as retiring as head of Kaiser Permanente in December of 2013.
Please read more of this story at Modern Healthcare at the above highlighted link.
also at the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-kaiser-ceo-20121005,0,5013919.story
ATTENTION:
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STORIES ARE LISTED ON THIS
PAGE AS WELL AS ON THE OREGON/WASHINGTON PAGE BECAUSE THE JAYANT PATEL
MATTER
APPLIES TO EVERY STATE IN THE U.S. KAISER STORIES
REGARDING
SUBVERSION OF WRITTEN
LAW BY KAISER AS NOT APPLYING TO THEM ALSO ARE
LISTED
ON THIS PAGE AS WELL.
THE REASONS AGAIN ARE BECAUSE KAISER IS
DOING
BUSINESS IN THE SAME MANNER IN EVERY
STATE THEY ARE LICENSED TO
PRACTICE
IN. WHY IS KAISER ALLOWED TO BE ABOVE THE LAW?
Refer for recent stories on Patel - to - http://nwkaiserpapers.com/news
Police
ready to get Patel
By Paula
Doneman of The Courier-Mail
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20800481-3102,00.html
November
20, 2006 11:00pm
POLICE
will today take the first step to extradite disgraced surgeon Jayant
Patel back to
Queensland to face charges of killing and maiming
patients at Bundaberg Hospital.
mirrored
for historical purposes at: http://nwkaiserpapers.com/news/extraditepatel.html
* Chronology
regarding Dr. Patel (pdf)
The
Oregonian has also put together a selection of relevant information
for the world to more
readily
access the information on Jayant Patel
and
understand how it happened that he was
allowed to
get away with it all
for decades.
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/malpractice/
Report
recommends Patel manslaughter charge -
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1520107.htm
The report
into Queensland's public hospitals has recommended Dr Jayant
Patel be
charged with
manslaughter over the deaths of patients he
treated
at Bundaberg Base Hospital.
.... The
report recommends Dr Patel be referred to police and charged
with manslaughter,
grievous
bodily harm, assault and fraud.
His former
employers
also face disciplinary
action.
mirrored
at: https://kaiserpapers.com/formoney/gotojailpatel.html
Australian
inquiry recommends manslaughter
probe
11/29/2005,
8:59 p.m. PT
By
MERAIAH FOLEY
The
Associated Press
SYDNEY,
Australia (AP) — An
inquiry into
a disgraced surgeon said Wednesday
his negligence
led
to the deaths of 13 patients at a rural Australian
hospital
and recommended he be investigated
for manslaughter. In
its final report, the six-month,
16 million
Australian dollar (US$11.8
million;
euro10 million) inquiry also
recommended that two senior
hospital
administrators be prosecuted for
their roles in hiring and promoting
the
surgeon, Dr. Jayant Patel.
http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1133327042174890.xml&storylist=orlocal
originally
posted at but since removed: http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,17410529%255E3102,00.html
Patel
wants his tax refund
Hedley
Thomas
30
nov 05
https://kaiserpapers.com/formoney/gotojailpatel.html
THE
doctor whose
negligence led to at
least 13
deaths, countless injuries
and a cost to
Queensland of more than $6
billion wants a refund of taxes he paid during his two-year tenure.
Dr
Jayant Patel has instructed his
legal team to
retrieve documents
from Bundaberg Base
Hospital to enable him to claim
a refund on tax he paid on his $200,000 a year package as
director
of surgery.
Patel's
disturbing record at Kaiser
Despite
a series of malpractice cases and negligent surgeries, the
HMO saw Dr. Jayant Patel
as anything
Sunday,
November 06, 2005
SUSAN
GOLDSMITH and DON COLBURN
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/malpractice/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1131093370226790.xml&coll=7
Mirrored
for historical purposes at:
https://kaiserpapers.com/formoney/patelrecord.html
Medical Board
Stories
This
California story is important because if Kaiser refuses to honor
and obey the law in this
state they are certainly doing the
same thing in every other place they are allowed to continue
doing business.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/valley/la-fi-kaiser22nov22,1,4539465.story?coll=la-editions-valley
State Faults
Kaiser Doctors
Revisiting
the case of a woman whose cancer was misdiagnosed, medical
regulators decide to
censure five more physicians.
By Debora
Vrana - Times Staff Writer - November 22, 2005
The
Medical Board of California, reversing an earlier position, has
decided to publicly censure all
six Kaiser Permanente doctors involved
in the death of a Woodland Hills woman whose case has
sparked a debate
about state oversight of California's largest HMO.
Mirrored at:
https://kaiserpapers.com/robynlibitsky/kaiserstillwontobeythelaw.html
Kaiser,
OHSU will release data on malpractice
Kaiser
agrees to start respecting the law and reporting their physician
malpractice information.
Thursday,
November 17, 2005
DON
COLBURN
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1132199721277010.xml&coll=7
mirrored
at: http://nwkaiserpapers.com/news/respectthelaw.html
CRIMINAL
EMPLOYEES OF KAISER STORIES
Five
convicted in $1.1 million fraud andmoney
laundering scheme against Kaiser Permanente
http://sacramento.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel06/sc082206.htm
SACRAMENTO:
United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott, IRS Special Agent in Charge
of
Criminal Investigation Roger L. Wirth, and FBI Special Agent in
Charge Drew Parenti announced
today that HENRY M. KAISER, 62, of
Piedmont, California, was ordered to serve a term of
imprisonment of
one year and one day for his role in a scheme to misappropriate $25
million from
SureWest Communications, a publicly traded company based
in Roseville, California. The crime,
which occurred in 2003, resulted
in a $2 million loss to SureWest. KAISER was also ordered to
pay $2
million in restitution and a $25,000 fine. The sentence was handed down
by United States
District Judge Morrison C. England.
This case
was investigated by the FBI and IRS Criminal Investigation with
assistance from the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
KAISER
HOSPICE and EUTHANASIA PROGRAM STORIES
It's
Called
the "terrible" choice - Kaiser Hospice Program
It's called
the "terrible choice." A terminally
ill patient can keep
fighting a disease, often at
enormous expense -- or get low-cost
hospice
care and accept death.
http://euthanasia.kaiserpapers.com/hospfraud.html
Hospice
Patients Alliance - Press Release
License to
kill
Hospitals
reserve the right to pull your plug by Wesley J.
Smith
http://euthanasia.kaiserpapers.com/lickill.html
Ila Swan
West
Coast Director of the Association for the Protection
of the Elderly on
Kaiser Permanente
http://euthanasia.kaiserpapers.com/ilaspage.html
Kaiser
and Euthanasia Cases
...came
down to yet another Kaiser HMO
doctor-administrator, Robert
Richardson,
who
approved giving a lethal overdose to this elderly woman
under pressure from her
family.
Kaiser Permanente is a fully capitated
HMO with a profit sharing plan for its
doctors.
Dr. Richardson may or
may
not have directly thought of the economic advantages
to
his
organization
and his own profit sharing plan in making his decision about Mrs.
Cheney.
Nevertheless,
the existence of an economic incentive program put in
place
purposefully to
induce
doctors to reduce medical costs, an incentive
system
that in this case favored doctor-
assisted
suicide over expensive
medical
care, did exist and should be noted.
http://euthanasia.kaiserpapers.com/kaisereuth.html
Barber-Nejdl
(Clarence Herbert) -
Robert Nejdl and Neil Barber,
Kaiser doctors
charged with murder in the death of Clarence Herbert so
they could get a bonus at
the end of the year.
Also
at: http://members.tripod.com/american_almanac/hmousele.htm
The
Criminalization of American Medicine:1965-1993.
Death
by Potassium Chloride
Routine
but deadly drug:potassium chloride has a Jekyll and Hyde personality
Medical
Error Stories
Former
Kaiser
Doctor Talks To ABC7
Claims Many Medical Mistakes
By Debora Villalon
From: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=3626588
Nov. 11 - KGO - A doctor who once worked at Kaiser Permanente in
South
San Francisco claims preventable medical mistakes happened too
often at
that hospital. He says
cost-cutting
moves put patients' lives in danger, and
when he tried to warn Kaiser, he was fired.
mirrored for public information at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/abc7.html
Thu, Nov.
10, 2005
Hospitals
blamed in more deaths
By
David L. Beck
Mercury
News
Kaiser
Permanente officials have confirmed the deaths of two more
patients
caused by
staff errors at its South Bay hospitals. The deaths bring to
at least four the number of fatal
incidents at Kaiser facilities during
the past 13 months.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/13129841.htm
mirrored
at:
https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/avoidkaiser.html
Wed,
Nov. 09, 2005 Kaiser patient dies after
getting wrong medication
Associated
Press
SAN
JOSE,
Calif. - A Kaiser
Permanente patient
died after receiving
the wrong medication
at one of the company's hospitals, the second
patient
recently reported to have died under
similar circumstances at the
facility,
state health regulators said.
from:http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/13124008.htm
mirrored at:
https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/avoidkaiser.html
Nov.
08, 2005
Kaiser
confirms third patient death
By
Julie Sevrens Lyons - Mercury News
Kaiser
Permanente officials on Tuesday confirmed a third case in which
a patient at a
South Bay hospital died after a medication error.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/13117889.htm
text
mirrored at:
https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/thethirdone.html
State
let Kaiser, OHSU escape oversight
Malpractice
claims Lax enforcement kept 18 years of cases unreported,
including
red flags about Dr. Jayant M. Patel
Monday,
November 07, 2005
STEVE
WOODWARD and SUSAN GOLDSMITH
The
Oregonian
http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonianextra/2008/06/_australia_ready_to_charge.html#2
and
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/malpractice/
Childbirth
and Delivery Errors at Kaiser
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reach the articles.
Malpractice
and Negligent Medical Care Stories
From
Money Magazine - January 2007
It
took
13 doctor visits and several misdiagnoses before
Hillarie Levy's daughter, Robyn Libitsky
was finally
diagnosed
accurately................
..........Levy's
advice
for anyone fighting the health care system? - Read more at:
Mirrored:
https://kaiserpapers.com/robynlibitsky/moneymagazine.html
Kaiser has faced at
least 20 wrongful death suits
in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since 1990.
California state officials
are
investigating four deaths in a Richmond hospital.
Texas Attorney General
Dan Morales says the state
has ''sufficient grounds'' to revoke
Kaiser's license. Issues include
quality-of-care
concerns and $71 million in losses...
HEATHER
O'ROURKE'S GRIEVING MOTHER TELLS WHY SHE'S SUING HER
CHILD'S
DOCTORS FOR WRONGFUL DEATH
Kaiser
condemned to FDA Pergatory
...deficiencies in
emergency care at Kaiser were
" systemic" throughout its network
and have led to a series of "medical
malpractice tragedies" You also called Kaiser's
plans to reduce the
numbers
of nurses on staff and internal Kaiser documents detailing
other
cost-saving
initiatives he said were degrading the quality of care and called to
the
attention to a series of wrongful death lawsuits filed against the
health
care provider.
Widow
testifies against Kaiser
She
says husband died because help was slow to arrive
Desperate
to find medical attention for her husband, a widow described
in court
yesterday how she had to slip into a restricted part of
Kaiser's
Woodland Hills
emergency department to find a doctor or nurse to attend
to her suffering husband.
Kaiser
fined $500,000 for not referring patient
Kathy
Robertson
The
state Department of Managed Care fined Kaiser Permanente $500,000
Thursday for failing to refer a Stockton youth with muscular dystrophy
to the
UC Davis Medical Center for needed care. The referral was
requested
in
August 2000. Timothy Waters, 19, died six days later.
October
31, 2005
Los Angeles Attorney - B. Casey Yim, of the law firm Murchison and
Cumming, LLP
accuses Los Angeles Times reporter of misquoting
him. Was the intent of Mr.Yim's
writing
to cast a shadow on the veracity of the entire article or is
he sincere?
See: https://kaiserpapers.com/yim.html
in the October 23, 2005 - How Many Doctors Should Be Blamed?
Originally from:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-newkaiser23oct23,0,1538660,print.story?coll=la-home-business
mirrored at for public information historical purposes:
https://kaiserpapers.com/robynlibitsky/hillarieandrobyn.html
Related story at:
http://www.simivalleyacorn.com/news/2005/1028/Community/031.html
and
https://kaiserpapers.com/robynlibitsky/robynl.html
Three
Kaiser Patient Victims Stories aired by station KEYT Santa Barbara
https://kaiserpapers.com/videos/Kaiser
Permanente victims.wmv
If
using Firefox please right click and "Open Link In New Window"
From
The Simi Valley Acorn
http://www.simivalleyacorn.com/news/2005/1028/Community/031.html
and
https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/acorn.html
October 28, 2005 - Simi Valley woman wants daughter’s doctors
publicly
named for misdiagnoses
By Michelle Knight knight@theacorn.com
October 23,
2005 - How Many Doctors
Should Be
Blamed?
Originally
from:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-newkaiser23oct23,0,1538660,print.story?coll=la-home-business
mirrored
at for public information historical purposes:
https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/hillarieandrobyn.html
A
mother whose daughter died after Kaiser physicians missed her cancer
is fighting to
change a law that let the HMO report only one of the
practitioners
to the state.
By
Debora Vrana
Times
Staff Writer
Striking
a
Blow Against an HMO - Senior Kaiser patient wins $100,000 against
Kaiser
for Elder Abuse.
ABC
News story - One Man Takes On Kaiser After Losing His Leg. - The Gary
Rushford
Story
Balding,
He's Denied Health Coverage By Bob Levey
Thursday,
January 15, 2004; Page C11
The
title tells it's own story.
What
Ails Kaiser
Kaiser has faced at
least 20 wrongful death suits
in the Dallas-Fort Worth What
Ails Kaiser
Kaiser has faced at
least 20 wrongful death suits
in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since 1990.
California state officials
are
investigating four deaths in a Richmond hospital.
Texas Attorney General
Dan Morales says the state
has ''sufficient grounds'' to revoke
Kaiser's license. Issues include
quality-of-care
concerns and $71 million in losses...
HEATHER
O'ROURKE'S GRIEVING MOTHER TELLS WHY SHE'S SUING HER
CHILD'S
DOCTORS FOR WRONGFUL DEATH
Kaiser
condemned to FDA Pergatory
...deficiencies in
emergency care at Kaiser were
" systemic" throughout its network and have
led to a series of "medical
malpractice tragedies" You also called Kaiser's plans to reduce
the
numbers
of nurses on staff and internal Kaiser documents detailing other
cost-saving
initiatives he said were degrading the quality of care and called to
the
attention to a series
of wrongful death lawsuits filed against the
health
care provider.
Widow
testifies against Kaiser
She
says husband died because help was slow to arrive
Desperate
to find medical attention for her husband, a widow described
in court yesterday
how she had to slip into a restricted part of
Kaiser's
Woodland Hills emergency department
to find a doctor or nurse to attend
to her suffering husband.
Kaiser
fined $500,000 for not referring patient
Kathy
Robertson
The
state Department of Managed Care fined Kaiser Permanente $500,000
Thursday for
failing to refer a Stockton youth with muscular dystrophy
to the UC Davis Medical Center
for needed care. The referral was
requested
in August 2000. Timothy Waters, 19, died
six days later. area
since 1990. California state officials
are
investigating four deaths
in a Richmond hospital.
Texas
Attorney General
Dan Morales says the state
has ''sufficient grounds'' to revoke
Kaiser's license. Issues include
quality-of-care
concerns and $71 million in losses...
Arbitration
Stories
Medical
arbitration process can be costly
Harvey
Frey, a retired
radiation oncologist in California,
doesn't buy that. A patients' advocate,
Frey is spearheading a proposed
ballot initiative -- The Voluntary Health Plan Arbitration Act
of
2004
-- that would give Californians a choice of how to resolve future
health-care
disputes.
Arbitration
cuts
both ways in claims against hospitals by Rebecca Veseley
Private
justice system targeted - Binding arbitration often stacked against
consumers
Very
Angry Patient Stories
Eugene
Guevara-
Dr. Reynaldo Hernandez, who works in the hospital's urology
department,
was in stable condition at the hospital Sunday after being shot three
times,
said Kaiser
Permanente spokeswoman Reyna del Haro.
Everything
Else
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-kaiser13may13,1,5276524.story?
THE
STATE
Kaiser
Halts Kidney Venture
The
HMO abruptly announces that it will transfer about 2,000 transplant
patients
back to UC hospitals. The details are unresolved.
By
Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, Times Staff Writers
May
13, 2006
Mirrored
for Historical Purposes At:
http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/transplant/may13kidneytransplant.html
Informational
links
and news stories on Kaiser Permanente Hospital SARS Outbreaks
Patients
Criticize Kaiser the Most according to State Survey
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/ethics/ethics1.htm
Healing
vs. Honesty?
For
Doctors, Managed Care's Cost Controls Pose Moral Dilemma
Kaiser faces walloping new financial loss. (Kaiser Permanente)
San Francisco Business Times
|
October 23, 1998 |
Bole, Kristen
https://kaiserpapers.com/nationalnews/kaiser-financial-loss.html
Kaiser
Pharmacy Problem Stories
Prescribing
Practices BY DANIEL B. BORENSTEIN, M.D
Cytotoxic
(Antineoplastic) Drugs Are Being
Administered
Outside of OSHA Guidelines
Prescription
For Danger
Kaiser
is the state's biggest
drug buyer. "We usually
can tell the pharmacuetical
companies what kind of market share they're
going to get within our system so
they can calculate how much money
they're
going to make getting a drug onto
our formulary and then we
just
bargain with them straight up.
The
second Kaiser Family Foundation survey of Health Care in South Africa
HMO's
Prescription for Change: Flexibility
Help
Fight Medicare Fraud
To
get top care, get pushy - If your health plan won't send you to
a
leading
hospital, seek allies.
Kaiser
Permanente Child Experiment
NOTICE OF PENDING CIVIL
ACTION OVER LOS ANGELES
COUNTY
KAISER PERMANENTE MEASLES VACCINE TRIAL
Is
Kaiser Senior Advantage Really the Best for You?
Eleven
Unethical Managed Care Practices Every Patient Should Know About
(With emphasis
on mental health care) Please
copy and distribute this document widely.
The
HMO DeathWatch
Clinical
Evidence: Creation, Assessment, and Implementation
Emerging
Bone Problems In HIV-Infected Patients
Dan has been living
through a nightmare of bone
failure and hip replacement surgery
with a reluctant HMO (Kaiser), and
inexperienced doctors.
Medlaw
Recent Opinions
Unsanitary
Practices Stories
More
dirty scopes at Kaiser used on patients news coverage
KRON
4 coverage
Bad
Physician
Coverup Stories
An
Undisciplined
Doctor Why Wasn't He Stopped Sooner? - Dr. Michael McEnany
now former
chief of
cardiovascular surgery at San Francisco Kaiser Permanente Medical
Center
An
Undisciplined Doctor - Michael McEnany continued operating after
peers
questioned his competency
As
part of his resignation
deal, according to California
officials, Kaiser agreed to terminate
McEnany's practice review and not
file a
report to the medical board
of California, as the
hospital
was required to do. McEnany set up shop in Wisconsin and continued to
maim medicine.
A California Whistle Blower
brought this to the Medical
Board who finally conducted an
investigation. Because of
Kaiser's
cover up
to protect their reputation
patient's continued
to
be at risk. This case continues to show that the medical establishment
will blindly
trust
the word of a fellow
doctor over the word of other
witnesses, and that the medical
profession cannot adequately police
itself."
Medical
Records and Patient Confidentiality Stories
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06362/749444-114.stm
[Kaiser
Permanente, the big Oakland, Calif.-based managed-care
organization, informs
its 6.2 million members in California in a
privacy notice that "you may request that we limit
our uses and
disclosures of your" personal health information, but that "it is our
policy to
not agree to requests for restrictions." Scott Morgan,
Kaiser's national privacy and security
compliance officer, says that
because patient records often reside in many locations, it
would be too
difficult logistically to accommodate special privacy requests.
Furthermore,
some requests would have to be reviewed by lawyers,
driving up costs.]
mirrored
for historical purposes at:
https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/noprivacyatall.html
Jan
5, 2006 5:50 pm US/Pacific
Kaiser South Bay Patients' Information Stolen
Another inspiring tale of how secure the Kaiser patient information
is.
Letters carrying identity theft warnings have been sent to 25,000
patients
who
have been treated at Kaiser Permanente’s South Bay
Medical Center,
after
two contract employees were arrested on suspicion of stealing
their
personal
information.
http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_005205257.html
https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/kpsbinfo.html
Note: The following news story was a Kaiser planted
story.
It was done as a PR move to
cover up/deflect from their own HIPAA
violation
and their need to blame someone else.
The woman in the
article really
is innocent of this breach of patient information but her
name has been
smeared by Kaiser anyway. The truth is the information had
been online
for years and Kaiser never cared about it before it was brought to the
attention of HIPAA.
I have first hand knowledge of this entire thing
and
that is why I am openly writing this now.
It was wrong, it
was unfair
and the actions taken by Kaiser were totally uncalled
for.
A
good
investigative reporter should be covering this story and shedding
bright
light on
the entire matter.
Kaiser
Permanente
warns of patient info breach
OAKLAND, Calif. Kaiser Permanente is warning 140 Northern Californian
residents that
a disgruntled former employee has posted confidential
information about them on her Internet
site.
Video
News recap on NBC 11
Fox
Network Coverage
Nonprofit
health council sues Kaiser over medical disclosures
The
California Consumer Health
Care Council has sued
the Kaiser Foundation over
what
it says is inappropriate disclosure
of private
medical records.
The
council contends that when
Kaiser learns of a suit
or potential suit by a patient, its
legal department opens and studies
that patient's
private medical
records without notifying
the
patient. This alleged review by Kaiser's legal department is
inappropriate,
said
the council, because
Kaiser's legal employees have
no role in the patient's
health care.
"If a patient has a
claim against Kaiser for negligently
cutting off a little finger, why
should a clerk in Kaiser's legal
department
be able
to review the patient's
entire medical file,
which
might include information on unrelated sexual, psychiatric or
personal problems
...?"
asked Martin
Blake, one of the lawyers
who filed the suit in Alameda County Superior Court for
the council on
Monday.
John
Metz, the
chairman of the council, said that Kaiser
has put its own legal interests above
the protection of its patients'
privacy.
"It
is just wrong," he said in
a statement
Rx
for privacy - September 2, 2001
Patients'
records often vulnerable
At
least 141 employees at Kaiser Permanente Northwest, a hospital in
Oregon, looked
at skater Tonya Harding's medical
file when she sought treatment for a sprained wrist.
First
Incidence of Kaiser E-Mails going astray - 2000
Missing
records at cancer institute follow Kaiser glitch
Wire
Services August 11, 2000
Health
Internet Ethics
Electronic
Privacy Information Center
Kaiser
Permanente
Dana-Farber
Cancer InstituteBoston. Confidential personal information,
including names
and social security numbers, may have been stolen from
the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's
electronic administrative records
system,
according to a hospital spokesman.
Kaiser
exporting privacy by David Lazarus - Kaiser patient
information sent
overseas
Non-Profit
Status and other Financial Stories
including rate increases
13
things your health insurer doesn't want you to know
Non-profit
hospitals' top salaries may be due for a check-up
6
largest systems paid more than $1.2M, plus perks
"At
California-based Kaiser
Permanente, whose executives
oversee both an insurance plan
and a system of 30 hospitals,
outgoing
Kaiser Foundation
Hospital President Dale Crandall
was paid a total of $7.4 million in 2002, reflecting salary, deferred
compensation,
a bonus,
retirement and a one-time payment for termination of his
contract.
George Halvorson, the
new CEO, was
paid $2.2 million in 2002".
-
And you people
paid for their salaries earned
off of the medically killed, maimed,
experimented
on unknowingly and numerous government
contracts to produce useless,
inaccurate
data for Senate Hearings.
If
You Get Sick Will You Have A Hospital?
http://members.tripod.com/american_almanac/ifsick.htm
According
to a class-action suit brought by the Foundation for Taxpayer
and Consumer Rights,
which represents thousands of present and former
members
of the Kaiser-Permanente
(which has over 9 million members), the HMO
violated
California's laws regarding patient
care. The suit reported what Dr.
John
Vogt, Kaiser's Texas regional resources management
director, instructed
Kaiser managers in a 1995 seminar. Vogt said, ``We need to get from 300
[hospital days per 1,000 patients] to 180 days, and do it in less than
two years.... We're basically
n-line to getting [to] 180 days by
1996.''
And how do you
cut the number of patient days
in half that quickly? Vogt proposed
that Kaiser dump its chest-pain
protocol
(which saves lives by early identification of
heart attacks), because
the
protocol ``tripl[ed] our hospital days.''
Kaiser
to Offer Savings Accounts For Lower-Cost Health Coverage
By
RHONDA L. RUNDLE Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL -
November
15, 2004; Page B6
Also
at: https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/hsa.html
I
think that their non profit status and advertising on how much they
care is a fraud because
of the following statement:
...says
Dr. Southam: "If all we offer at Kaiser is comprehensive
coverage,
then all of the sick
people go to Kaiser and everyone else goes to the
other plans."
Colorado,
Georgia and the Northwest is the main
testing ground for Kaiser
patients.
Probably because they are very small
population areas for Kaiser and it is easier to see
what the
public will and will not be suckered into. Beware people in
these areas. As with
other Kaiser programs this may not turn
out to be exactly what the rest of the country
is
calling an HSA.
You
Are In The Hands Of Doctors
... the
newspaper's review of documents, including
e-mails and notes of private meetings,
reveals Kaiser encouraged its
doctors
in Northern California to make themselves as unavailable
as possible to
their patients in order to lower patient demand and costs.
Editorial
Reply to In The Hands of Doctors - Kaiser Made It Hard To See An M.D.
Kaiser
raises income on flat membership - August 1, 2003
...reported
income of $306 million on revenue of $6.3 billion, compared
with income of
$161 million on sales of $5.5 billion a year prior.
Membership
stayed level year-over-year
David
and The Giant Profits
At
California-based Kaiser Permanente, whose executives oversee both
an insurance plan
and a system of 30 hospitals, outgoing Kaiser
Foundation Hospital President Dale Crandall
was
paid a total of $7.4
million
in 2002, reflecting salary,
deferred compensation, a bonus,
retirement
and a one-time payment for
termination
of his contract. George Halvorson, the new
CEO,
was paid $2.2 million
in
2002.
Kaiser
Health Connect - Kaiser's profits take turn for the worse
The
above article is from 2003 - We will be doing a review of their
recent gigantic upturn
indicated in the top article and how
they really did it. It is all just on paper and
nothing
really
has changed.
Careless
or Less Care?
Kaiser's
high profits give strong warning yet regulators appear to stand fast
By
Mike
Fleming - Axcess Business News
How
Kaiser's Cost Slashing Has Nicked It's Business
In recent months, state
and federal authorities
have launched investigations into Kaiser practices in
Texas and
California.
The probes examine issues ranging from inadequate staffing at hospitals
to
poor emergency-care service and, in Texas, a high number of
wrongful-death
suits.
Kaiser
Finds Urgent Need For Self-Care -Not worth the money Verizon says
Health
insurer Kaiser Permanente's Washington operation was handed
a stinging rebuke last
fall when Verizon Communications Inc. -- a
long-time
Kaiser customer -- told area employees it
wasn't getting its money's
worth
from the HMO.
KAISER
RANKS AS NUMBER 5 - THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST!
MIRRORED
STORY
When
Kaiser Permanente began a
program to dispose of its obsolete
computer
equipment two
and a half years ago, it was motivated more by cost
concerns
than by the desire to properly dispose of products with potentially
toxic
content.
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/desktops/story/0,10801,89552,00.html
SYNTHETIC
LEASE PROCEEDS SUPPORT HMO GIANT'S TURN-AROUND
the
above article $103,000,000
Kaiser Permanente/
1800 Harrison Foundation
Variable Rate Obligation
Synthetic Lease
'The
primary benefit of operating lease accounting
is that neither the
building nor the
associated acquisition debt is recorded on Kaiser’s
balance sheet. Additionally, depreciation
expense is
not recorded,
though this is partially offset by the fact that the entire lease
payment
is recorded as rent expense. Thanks to this structure, Kaiser was able
to efficiently finance the
acquisition of an essential building without
weakening the company’s balance sheet.'
The
above article is from 1998. If the
company needed to cook
the books to get the public to
invest in their bonds then in my opinion
that is a very bad investment. If they weren't truthful
to
the investor
then why would anyone want to deal with them anytime in the future.
Considering
how many patients died from the Vioxx
experiment which was conducted on the
public and how long it
took for
Kaiser or anyone to come out with the information about how
deadly that
medication is I wonder why the Department
of Defense has hired Kaiser to study
the heart
complications
for the smallpox vaccination which is mandatorily given to all
military
personnel, including reservists.All of which is paid for by the Centers
for Disease Control I
would think that they want
information
that would be useful and not something hidden from
people that actually
need to know how to help our servicemen.
See
page 11 of online report.
Did
your doctor deny you treatment for a bonus?
In Supreme Court case,
woman says bonus policy
led to medical emergency. Lawyers warn
of damage to industry.
By Richard Willing
USA TODAY
Medicaid
Focused Health Plans - A Community Conspiracy
David
Lawrence, the physician-CEO of Kaiser Permanente, once remarked
in the late 1990s
on how ironic it was that 25 years earlier health
maintenance
organizations (HMO) had been
portrayed as a “communist
conspiracy” and
now they had become a “capitalist
conspiracy.”
DEVELOPING
AND FINANCING A CLINICAL TRIALS RESEARCH PROGRAM
Presentation
to the Society of Research Administrators-Steve Stoller, Ph.D.,
M.P.H.
Kaiser
Foundation Research Institute
Report:
HMO Restricted Access
LOS
ANGELES (AP) - Kaiser Permanente, California's largest health
maintenance
organization,
restricted patients' access to doctors during an ad
campaign
that touted their accessibility, the
Los Angeles Times reported
Saturday.
The HMO's
campaign used the slogan ``you're in the hands of doctors.''
But
the newspaper's review of documents, including e-mails and notes
of private meetings,
reveals Kaiser encouraged its doctors in Northern
California to make themselves as unavailable
as possible to their
patients
in order to lower patient demand and costs.
Kaiser
and it's Obscene Profits
#
In 1994, the top 21 HMOs, hospital chains, and long-term care
providers
made over
$3 billion profits (LA Times, 5-4-95) and California's six
biggest
HMOs made $1.13 billion.
(SF Examiner, 3-10-96) Northern California
Kaiser
alone made over $813 million.
(SF Chronicle, 2-12-96)
#
Kaiser’s 1993
profits were so high that dozens of pages
of memos were exchanged
between high-level administrators discussing
how
to explain these profits to its workers
whose jobs were being cut, and
to its patients whose hospitals were being closed. One
sample: "As much
as possible, present 1993 financial results in context so that they
don’t
conflict with current budget/layoff imperatives." (California Nurses
Association)
HMOs
are complaining that Kaiser
deliberately
undercut rivals' prices
to grab market share,
then found itself unable to make money on the new
business. California Nurses Association
Executive Director Rose Ann
DeMoro
claimed that Kaiser has diverted funds from patient
care to pay for
advertising
and marketing, management consultants and mergers and
acquisitions
"for
the sole purpose of dominating the HMO market." (LA Times, 2-14-98)
In June,
1998, Kaiser announced an alliance with
AvMed, Florida's largest
non-profit, with 400,000
members. (CNA
communication) What
is important is not only the size and pace of the
acquisitions,
but
also
that they were non-profit, with a tradition of membership service
and/or
involvement.
Kaiser wants a patient base more involved with its HMO,
more
likely to identify with it, and more
willing to accept its cuts.
Experiments
on Humans
Business
of clinical trials soars, but risks unknown
Bayer
was
coached in the scheme by a purchasing manager from Kaiser Permanente
Bayer
Agrees to Pay U.S. $257 Million in Drug Fraud
Cutting
Corners April 2003
Critics
of Kaiser's cost-cutting efforts warn of the dangers of an
HMO policy in which
sick patients with shaky hands
must split their own pills. BY SUSAN GOLDSMITH
susan.goldsmith@eastbayexpress.com
https://kaiserpapers.com/bayer.html
After
Bayer and Kaiser got in trouble
with the Federal Government for charging Kaiser less
for
medications than they did Medicare
the link listed below disappeared It was an award
that
Bayer
had presented to Kaiser for
working so well with them. In fact all references to Kaiser
have
disappeared from this Bayer
website. The old internet address was:
http://www.bayerinstitute.com/veterans/
Medical
Economics
Corporate
Healthcare- For Profit, Not for Profit, or Not for Patients: Kaiser
Permanente
Playing
the HMO Game
In June, Kaiser
Permanente, the giant HMO with
the imperial name, announced that it had
decided not to cover the cost
of the $10 erection pill for its 9 million members. Just three
weeks
later,
the little pill had become a symbol of one of the nation's hottest
political
issues:
what HMOs do and don't pay for
The
Real Truth About What Kaiser and The Permanente Is! - Quickly written
but
truthful.
Physicians'
union holy grail: Kaiser
Now
the union will renew efforts begun a year ago to organize 3,300 Kaiser
doctors in
Northern California, including 701 in Sacramento. - June 4,
1999
CORPORATE
HEALTH CARE
This is a web site from Australia that is devoted to exploring the
privatisation and corporatisation
of health care.
They
examine the oldest health and aged care marketplace in the world
- the USA. They show
quite clearly that its has failed and that the victims of the
disturbing systems which
resulted are
US citizens. I suggest that you use your Google Bar on this
page and type in Kaiser and then hit
the Search
Site bar. This site has documented years and years
of Kaiser abuse on the citizens
of this country and
presented,
with a clear eye, a quite often different perspective of the
situation
than we have here.
How
Kaiser's Cost Slashing Has Nicked It's Business
In recent months, state
and federal authorities
have launched investigations into Kaiser practices
in Texas and
California.
The probes examine issues ranging from inadequate staffing at hospitals
to poor emergency-care service and, in Texas, a high number of
wrongful-death
suits.
HMOs
Stalk Patients'
Rights - The industry must not be allowed to wiggle its way
out
of
accountability
to the ailing.
How
HMO Policies Kill `Useless Eaters''
A nurse's testimony led
to the Los Angeles County
prosecutor attempting to bring murder
charges against the
doctors.
While
the case was not
successful, what was discovered
during the investigation and
scandal, was the role of Kaiser's
policies.
Kaiser's policies dictated that the doctors were
in danger of losing
their
year-end bonuses for cost-cutting if they had kept him alive!
Printed
in
the American Almanac, January, 2000.
DEVELOPING
AND FINANCING A CLINICAL TRIALS RESEARCH PROGRAM
Presentation
to the Society of Research Administrators-Steve Stoller, Ph.D.,
M.P.H.
Kaiser
Foundation Research Institute
Kaiser
Clerks Paid
More for Helping Less
Teaching
hospitals diagnose cuts
Kaiser:
Profit up, members are flat
By
Nicholas Yulico, BUSINESS WRITER
Kaiser
Permanente's profits increased 37 percent in the first half
of this year,
yet national membership remained flat at about 8.2
million,
the company said Friday.
Also
at: https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/poof.html
Managed
Care Nightmare-Claim Denials, AMA Lawsuits - from Medical Association
of
Billers
Kaiser
Mental Health Program
TRIAGE
AS TREATMENT
Phantom
Mental Health Services At Kaiser-Permanente
The
allegation that the push
for profits resulted in
the failure to provide mental health
services to patients, brought to
my
mind a strike
that took place at a
Kaiser Permanente
facility
in Colorado (Herz, 1998). At this facility, treating clinicians were
expected
to
integrate ten
new patients a
week into their caseloads.
The question arose as to the
adequacy of care that resulted from this
policy. A
group of clinicians staged a
job action
to protest
what they felt were requirements that interfered with adequacy of
services.
Prozac
May Be Hazardous to Your Health Insurance - by Vicki Lankarge
If you've had even a mild bout of depression, you may find buying an
individual health
insurance policy a challenge. Here's how to succeed
in
the process.
Children
Should Not Be Overmedicated - by Tony Zizza
Kaiser
Retaliation Stories
Kaiser
squeezes out their own doctors that do not get with the cost saving
program.
How Kaiser nails a doctor whistleblower or just someone that cares for
the patients
more than the doctor stockholders. Or even worse, by
Kaiser
standards, someone that
would dare to invest in the
competition.
Yes this article tells about the doctor stockholders,
the ones that
want
to cut patient costs so they can make more money. ...doctors'
rights
to due
process are violated from the get-go at Kaiser because the chief
of staff -- the person took
disciplinary action against the doctor in
this
case -- is the person who selects the panel that
reviews the
matter.Furthermore,
senior doctors at Kaiser are shareholders in a medical group
that has
an
exclusive contract to work at Kaiser hospitals, posing an inherent
conflict
of interest...
"Now, you have huge health systems with corporate
employees
and the system is being used to
get rid of troublesome doctors," he
said.
Harassment or substandard care -
https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/kaisersqueezeoutdocs.html
Ex-worker
sues Kaiser over X-ray standards
A
former Kaiser Permanente employee filed a whistle-blower lawsuit
this week against the
health care network, claiming he was fired for
complaining
to regulators about Kaiser's
X-ray standards.
Septuagenarians
spend time, money on specialists
Image
isn't
Kaiser's
only problem
The Rocky Mountain News reported Aug. 3 that Kaiser Permanente's
research
shows its
patients think the health maintenance organization is a huge,
bureaucratic system in which
patients don't have a personal physician
and
get mediocre care ("Kaiser launches ads to
help ailing image").
On
August 13, 2004 the San Francisco Business
Journal printed a retraction
to a story
they covered on The Kaiser Permanente Reform Committee that
was untrue.It is as follows:
The
Aug 13th edition
of SF Business Times printed
the following under
"Corrections&Amplifications"
on the bottom of page six:
"The Aug 6-12 "Talk of the Town" column erroneously referred to
"hacking"
in describing the
acquisition of Kaiser Permanente marketing materials
by the Kaiser Permanente Reform Committee,
a critic of the healthcare
company.
The documents were retrieved using a publicly accessible
Kaiser
website,
though the group says it discovered a "security hole" on that site.
Kaiser
says its computer
security was not breached."
For
unknown reasons, people had written letters to
this paper making
claims that we had hacked
(committed an illegal act) into the Kaiser
Permanente
web site. The people doing this signed my
name, Vickie Travis
to
their letters. Well, I didn't write any letters to this
newspaper
nor did myself or
any member of our organization do anything
illegal.
What is presented here is a letter to the paper
from myself and Sharon
Rushford, our Board Secretary correcting their erroneous information.
:http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2004/08/16/editorial5.html
Kaiser
Branding of America Stories
Response
from
Dr. Charles Phillips on the December 2004 MSNBC Kaiser paid
advertisement
on a newsprogram "Kaiser bucks the HMO trend"
-https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/msnbcsellout.html
-
To story:
https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/msnbcsellout.html
December
22, 2004 - The anniversary of passing for
my father-in-law,
Everett Earl Travis, who
was a war hero and who was wounded at The
Battle
of the Bulge and who did teach us all that
we do not ever disgrace our
country if we expect to look at ourselves in a mirror again
without
seeing
shame. The following web page is for him as he is the
inspiration.
https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/vickiestatement.html
We believe that Kaiser and The-For-Profit Permanente in order to embed
(Kaiser's word not ours)
themselves in the minds of the American Public
have had planted at MSNBC (which is heavily
financed by the
pharmaceutical
industry) during their prime time news ...
If our own President's (G.W. Bush) state (Texas) didn't want them
around
I don't think that the rest
of the country does either.
PATIENT
DUMPING STORIES BY THE KAISER PERMANENTE SYSTEM
Alleged Skid Row Dumping Is Captured
on Videotape
A
patient released from a Kaiser hospital is shown wandering outside a
downtown L.A.
rescue mission.By Cara Mia DiMassa, Times Staff Writer
March 23, 2006
entire story at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-dumping23mar23,1,1193808.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california
Also
view the video of this patient dumping on the LA Times web page
listed above.
Highlights:
The
mission has been sending tapes and written logs of alleged dumping
incidents to the
Los Angeles city attorney's office.
Reyes
of Gardena was released Monday after being a patient at Kaiser
Permanente
Bellflower Medical Center for three days, the hospital said.
Capt. Andrew Smith of the
LAPD's Central Division said that he believes
the taxi took Reyes to skid row against her will.
Reyes
said in an interview that she could not remember what happened
when she left the
hospital or how she got to skid row.
City
Councilwoman Jan Perry, who showed reporters the video at a news
conference, called
the dumping of the woman "egregious."
mirrored
for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/dumpedreyes.html
Video
Said to Capture Skid Row
Dumping
From: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-032206dump_lat,0,5616475.story?coll=la-home-headlines
By Cara Mia
DiMassa
Times
Staff Writer - March 22, 2006
Authorities
released a videotape this afternoon of what they say is the
dumping of a 63-year-old
woman on the streets of skid row. .....LAPD
Capt. Andrew Smith said he believes the taxi took the
woman, a
63-year-old Gardena resident, downtown against her will after she was
discharged from
Kaiser Permanente Bellflower on Monday....In addition,
LAPD officials have said that they often see
people with
hospital wristbands on skid row, often appearing ill and sometimes
wearing colostomy bags.
Mirrored
at: https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/skidrow.html
Government
Investigations
Kaiser Permanente to pay
$3.75 for false billing -
GME Residents did the work
False bills to government/
Medicare prompt a settlement by Kaiser - Dec 2009
Kaiser Permanente has agreed to pay $3.75 million
https://kaiserpapers.com/fines/false-billing.html
State
regulators widen probe into Kaiser's ills
San
Francisco Business Times - November 10, 2006
by
Chris Rauber
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2006/11/13/story6.html?b=1163394000%5E1374648
State
health regulators have widened a probe of Kaiser Permanente's
process
for
handling complaints beyond its ill-fated kidney transplant unit and
into
other
operations of the health-care giant.
Kaiser
Nurse/Physician Bonus for
doing less
Kaiser
Seeking to Pay Bonuses to
Nurses Who Help Cut Costs; Health care:
The move is believed to be an
industry first. Critics argue that such incentives create a conflict of
interest.;
DAVID
R. OLMOS - Los
Angeles Times -
Dec. 22, 1995
In
what is believed to be the first effort
of its kind, the giant Kaiser Foundation Health Plan is seeking to
pay
bonuses to nurses who help move patients out of hospitals faster and
cut other medical costs.
Critics
of such
incentives--widely
offered to doctors--say they create a conflict of interest by
encouraging medical
providers to skimp on care so they can make more
money. Because they are paid less than doctors, nurses may
be
particularly vulnerable to such conflicts, critics add.
https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/cutcorners.html
Kaiser
Permanente has dropped a controversial bonus plan that rewarded
physicians in Southern California
for keeping hospital and drug costs
down.
Carl
T. Hall, Chronicle Staff Writer
for the SF Chronicle
December
20, 1995
The giant Oakland-based HMO denied the move was
intended to
placate critics of the
bonus plan, who had said the system essentially
rewarded doctors for rationing care.
Instead, officials said the
budgetary goals were met for 1995 -- so the incentives
were
not
necessary for 1996.
https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/cutbackenough.html
Kaiser
has aches, pains
going digital
Patients'
welfare is at stake in the electronic effort, experts say.
By Daniel Costello,
Times Staff Writer
February 15, 2007
Kaiser
Permanente's $4-billion effort to computerize the medical
records of its 8.6 million members
has encountered repeated technical
problems, leading to potentially dangerous incidents such as
patients
listed in the wrong beds, according to Kaiser documents and current and
former employees.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fi-kaiser15feb15,1,3764666,full.story?coll=la-
headlines-frontpage
mirrored
for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/achydigital.html
Commentary
from
Justin Deal/ a Los Angeles Kaiser project supervisor who
worked on the new
system.
He was placed on leave in November, after sending a critical e-mail
about the project to
most of the organization's 153,000 employees.
http://justen.blogspot.com/
Non-Profit
Status and other
Financial Stories including
rate increases | Kaiser
Mental Health Program
APPARENT PATIENT
BATTERY STORIES
From The Brazilian Voice
Brazilian
volunteer help Flórida’s patients
Jupirena
Stein from Minas Gerais, Brasil, considers herself a “patient
advocate.”
38
years ago, Jupirena Stein, 61 years old, left the green mountains of
Diamantina Brasil, for
the sunny beach of Santa Monica, California.
In Santa
Monica, she re-met an American gentleman who she had known 4 years
before at her
relatives home in Minas Gerais.
Then
they got married and the United States became her second country.
However,
in 1999, her life suffered a great upset after she
submitted to
an elective surgery to
remove a swollen parotid gland on her right
neck. A trivial type of surgery nowadays.
Jupirena
anticipated having a small band-aid patch on her neck after surgery.
However,
she woke up hours later bound from the shoulder to the head and asked
while
frightened:
What
happened?
Her
surgeon told her that all went well but that at one point of the
surgery, her blood
was squirting out of her neck.
Many
weeks later her ENT told her she had been diagnosed with cancer but
should not worry about it because all cancer cells had been removed.
Sadly, she
had 6 weeks of needless radiation treatment.
Read more from the Brazilian News Paper in both Portugese and English
at:
https://kaiserpapers.com/nationalnews/battery.html
Childbirth
and Maternal Survival Issues
October
19, 2007 - Dr. Charles Phillips provides additional information on Dr.
Hamid Safari of
Fresno, California , Kaiser Permanente.
http://drphillips.kaiserpapers.info/hamid-safari
Cross
Referenced with:
http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/kpchildrenstories.html
http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/noonewouldlisten.html
original source - http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-kaiser16oct16,0,684129,full.story?coll=la-
tot-topstories
related story - The
United States has a sharply higher rate of women dying during or just
after
pregnancy than European countries, even some relatively poor
countries such as Macedonia
and Bosnia, according to the first
estimates in five years on maternal deaths worldwide. - http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1339620220071013?sp=true
Mirrored for Historical Purposes at: http://nationalnews.kaiserpapers.info/materialdeathrate.html
Kaiser
Responds to the above article at: http://xnet.kp.org/newscenter/kpresponds/2007-10-15.html
and we have mirrored the response for historical purposes with brief
commentary at:
http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/kaiserresponds.html
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