"Docs Ditched After Undesirable Diagnosis"

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Wed, 09/03/2008 - 15:27

From the Johannesburg, South Africa Star, this story , entitled "Docs Ditched after Undesirable Diagnosis," has some eerie echoes of the past:

When medical specialists diagnosed at least 10 cases of manganese-specific illnesses at a factory in Cato Ridge, KwaZulu Natal, the Assmang manganese company dumped them 'like hot potatoes'.

They replaced them with a new team of doctors that revised the diagnoses to suggest the sick workers might be alcoholics, drug abusers or...


 

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