Rep. John Ragan, R-Oak Ridge, has pressured the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners to unpublish a policy against COVID-19 misinformation.
Author: Brett Kelman, Nashville Tennessean
This Tennessee doctor caught coronavirus at a meeting about coronavirus. He nearly died.
Dr. Daniel Lewis, the chief medical officer of a hospital in East Tennessee, nearly died after catching coronavirus. His recovery took months.
Tennessee erased insurance for at least 128,000 kids. Many parents don’t know.
Tennessee children have been rapidly disenrolled from TennCare, Medicaid and CoverKids health insurance programs.
Tennessee fugitive masqueraded as Harvard-educated psychiatrist, gave out pills, feds say
George David George was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison for a Tennesseefraud scheme. Prosecutors say he duped investors out of $3 million.
Pain clinic gave undercover agent dozens of opioid pills without exam, prosecutors say
A Tennessee doctor has been indicted on charges of drug trafficking and fraud. This is how he got caught.
Hospitals now required to post prices online to help patients. But it doesn’t work.
President Donald Trump required hospitals to put their prices online, but the efforts to save patients money have largely failed.
Nurse prescribed ‘colossal’ amount of opioids, kept license through error, state says
Christina Collins, an East Tennessee pain clinic nurse practitioner, was once one of the biggest opioid prescribers in the state. The Tennessee Department of Health arguedher prescriptions were “so colossal”their only reasonable…
Kid Rock is out of the Christmas parade. Who’s his replacement? It’s Nashville’s homegrown hero.
Kid Rock is out. James Shaw is in. The Nashville Christmas Parade kicked off with a new grand marshal on Saturday
A nurse’s error killed a patient and threw Medicare into jeopardy at a Nashville hospital
At Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the largest hospital in Nashville, a nurse’s error briefly jeopardized Medicare payments.