kansas city star

They say everything is up to date in Kansas City, so maybe it should not be a surprise that it is the source of a new and colorful tale of how leaders of health care organizations are different from you and me.  The Kansas City Star reported about the professional life of the recently fired CEO of Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences:

Hiring the CEO

A few weeks ago, the Los Angeles Times Booster Shots blog announced that "Dr.

Coca-Cola will see you now," noting opposition to the recently revealed alliance between the Coca-Cola Company and the American Academy of Family Physicians:

[in] a sharply worded letter sent Wednesday to Dr.

Douglas E. Henley, the academy’s chief executive.

It was a busy week in court for some US health care organizations.

Just before the US Independence Day holiday, news reports indicated that a jury in Alabama found that two large pharmaceutical firms, GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis, had defrauded the state.

For example, per the Associated Press,