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January 4, 2010 - By Lynn F. Sander, MD, MPH
The 2009 annual conference of the Society of Correctional Physicians entitled Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in the Aging Inmate was held on ...July 8, 2009 - By SCP
On May 23, SCP launched their interactive job board, SCP’s JobNet. With its focus on the correctional health care industry companies and professionals...April 15, 2009 - By Michelle Staples-Horne, MD, President
As correctional physicians, we often face ethical dilemmas to a greater extent than our community peers. In private practices, it would be rare to fac...May 8, 2009 - By Rebecca Lubelczyk, MD
Spring Seminar A member survey suggested you would like to hear talks on wound care, so we enlisted member Scott Savage to speak on the s...
May 8, 2009 - By Donna Johnson, JD
As any correctional health care provider knows, inmate lawsuits are an annoyance that come with the job. Since court fees are waived, inmates can file...May 8, 2009 - By SCP
The following bill of interest to correctional health care has been introduced to Congress. To view a full text of the bill, go to www.thomas.gov. June 13, 2008 - By SCP Staff
More than 1 in 100 American adults are in prison or jail, the Pew Charitable Trust’s Public Safety Performance Project recently reported. Pew said the...May 11, 2009 - By Anne Spaulding, MD, MPH
As this newsletter goes to press, human cases of influenza with a novel virus in the US number 279 persons. In Mexico, where 1,025 persons have confir...June 13, 2008 - By SCP Staff
An article appeared in the St. Louis Post Dispatch (January 12, 2008) about a nurse with a criminal past and still under probation being used t...June 13, 2008 - By Michelle Staples Horne, MD, MPH, CCHP
As President of the Society of Correctional Physicians, I recently attended the Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health in Boston...June 13, 2008 - By Rebecca Lubelczyk, MD, CCHP, FSCP
Membership: Good news! More of you already have renewed for 2008 than all of last year! And welcome to our 17 new members.Since January, t...
June 21, 2010 - By Michael T. Puerini, MD, CCHP-A and Dean P. Rieger, MD, MPH, CCHP
In correctional settings we employ a large number of mid-level providers. Although we encourage our mid-level providers to be clear in identifying th...June 21, 2010 - By Thomas A. Lincoln, MD
Released in 2008, The Dhamma Brothers follows a group of men participating in an intensive 10 day silent Vipassana meditation course at the crowded ma...June 21, 2010 - By Deana Johnson, JD
Professionals Beware:
No Deliberate Indifference Required For This Claim to Find YouIn 1976, the U. S. Supreme Court did correctional pr...
June 21, 2010 - By Lynn Sander, MD
After the tenth issue as editor, an event that I have been requesting and hoping for has finally happened. We received not one, but two letters to th...June 21, 2010 - By SCP
April 7, 2010 I am writing in response to the magazine article "Peer Review: Beyond Clinical Compliance", in Volume 13, issue 1, Winter 20...
June 21, 2010 - By Madhura A. Hallman, MD, MPH Candidate and Anne C. Spaulding, MD, MPH
Over the past decade, availability of hepatitis C treatment for appropriate inmate-patients has increased in most state prison systems. Written polic...June 21, 2010 - By Don Kern, MD
When I went to medical school, being a “good doctor” was a comment on one’s clinical skills. The practice of medicine revolved around clinical assess...June 21, 2010 - By Gregory Famiglio, MD, MBA, CCHP
For most of my corrections medicine career, I have worked in male facilities. I accepted a position as at a female facility and quickly learned that f...June 14, 2010 - By Kelly O'Brien, MD, FACP, CCHP
Note: All names were changed to protect the innocent (and the guilty, for that matter).The nurse’s station, Monday morning. I re...
June 14, 2010 - By Ted Parks, MD
To understand problems related to the shoulder joint, it is important to review the anatomy. The shoulder is a combination of three bones, the clavicl...June 14, 2010 - By SCP
In correctional settings we employ a large number of mid-level providers. Although we encourage our mid-level providers to be clear in identifying th...March 3, 2010 - By Kelly OBrien, MD, FACP, CCHP
I am so close to peeing on my toothbrush. I’m in the shower rinsing out hair color when I reach for my washcloth, but knock my toothbrush off the rail...March 3, 2010 - By Keith Ivens, MD
The SCP Board of Directors met via conference call on January 14, 2010. This was the first meeting of the recently elected board, and my first as Secr...March 3, 2010 - By Ingrid A. Bingswanger, MD, MPH
Jail and prison inmates are known to have a higher burden of infectious diseases, substance use disorders and psychiatric illness than the general, no...March 3, 2010 - By Michael T. Puerini, MD, CCHP-A and Dean P. Rieger, MD, MPH
The Little Old Man Who Wouldn't: Patient's Autonomy vs. Safety George Campbell (not his real name) is a 70-year-old mentally retarded male...
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