Meharry meets the future: Nashville turns to historic black medical school to provide community-wide indigent health care

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Meharry Medical College, a traditionally black institution, has merged its George W. Hubbard Hospital with Nashville, Tennessee's Metropolitan General Hospital after lengthy negotiations. The city will demolish its hospital and lease Hubbard for $2.5 million per year and at least $35 million for renovations and equipment. Meharry will provide the medical staffing. The merger will lift a huge financial burden from Meharry, allowing it to restructure its debts and reestablish residencies in surgery, pediatrics and obstetrics-gynecology.

Colleges and universities, General medical & surgical hospitals, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Hospitals, African American universities and colleges, Historically black colleges and universities, Meharry Medical College

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Implant lawyer's career began with medical school

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Frank Woodside III, one of about 2,000 persons in the United States who hold degrees in both medicine and law, has undergraduate and law degrees from Ohio State University and a medical degree from the University of Cincinnati. In addition to defending physicians accused of malpractice, he has defended companies whose products are accused of causing physical harm. One of Woodside's most famous cases is his defense of Dow Corning Corp in its silicone-gel breast implants case.

Legal services, Attorneys, Lawyers, Practice, Biography, Medical jurisprudence, Forensic medicine, Woodside, Frank, III

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Are symptoms all in the patient's mouth (or fillings)?

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There are concerns over the health hazards posed by mercury-amalgam dental fillings. Physicians need to be aware of their patients' concerns because of symptoms that the patient may attribute to their dental fillings. Chronic exposure to mercury can cause kidney damage and neurological effects while short-term exposure to mercury vapor can cause stomach ailments, lung damage and rashes. The American Medical Assn has not established a policy concerning amalgam fillings.

Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors, Product Safety Regulation NEC, Physiological aspects, Product safety, Safety regulations, Fillings (Dentistry), Dental fillings, Mercury (Metal), Mercury in the body

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