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NJ doctor's training in question
POMPTON LAKES ? State officials say an anesthesiologist who was convicted of manslaughter in a patient?s death in England is performing major back surgery in northern New Jersey without proper training.

And the sick get sicker
The Issue: The increase in fatalities due to C. diff, the deadliest virus contracted in US hospitals. *** As a medical provider, we?ve been trying to shed light on the issue of hospital infections (?A Killer Hospitals Pretend To Fight,? PostOpinion, Besty McCaughey). The instance of nosocomial infections in hospitals...

Old Bridge doctor agrees to suspend license amid charges he doled out painkillers, steroids
The agreement, announced this morning at a meeting of the State Board of Medical Examiners in Trenton, means Roger Lallemand Jr. will not be permitted to take part in the state's new medical marijuana program