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| Home | Add URL (sw) | Modify a Site | Search | Administrative | What's Cool | Display a Resource Burlington Free Press won this year's Joseph L. Brechner Center for Freedom of Information award given out each year by the University of Florida. The award was presented for the paper's work on the lack of information surrounding regulation of doctors; specifically, a four-part series called "Code of Silence" by staff writer Stephen Kiernan in December 2001. Kiernan's series told the story of the late Lois Tarczewski, who died 10 years after spinal surgery had gone awry. Her husband, Richard, said that had Lois known that her surgeon was not proficient in that type of surgery and had experienced bad outcomes in the past, she would have gone elsewhere. The series, as well as subsequent stories and editorials, led to legislative reform of Vermont laws governing regulation of doctors, including a provision to make more information available to the public about Vermont doctors' records of performance. (Link number 202 was added on 22-Nov-2002 and has had 43 hits. The source of this resource was found at http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/bfpnews/business/friday/3000h.htm . This resource no longer appears to be available. But you are free to click on the red links anyway if you like. Display, modify, or delete resource in a separate tab or window.) _blank Simular Resources

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