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Swedish double-booked its surgeries, and the patients didn’t know
Some of Swedish Health’s top neurosurgeons have routinely run multiple operating rooms at the same time while keeping patients in the dark about the practice, The Seattle Times has found. Swedish touts...
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Counselor at Seattle’s Garfield High School keeps job despite financial-fraud...
A Seattle guidance counselor has been fined twice by state regulators for selling stocks without a broker’s license and misleading investors. But he continues to advise students at Garfield High School.
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Kirkland naturopath Lucinda Messer’s license has been suspended by the state Board of Naturopathy for a variety of violations, but she may have still been treating cancer patients in violation of the...
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Virginia Mason to inform patients about overlapping surgeries
Virginia Mason joins Swedish Health and the University of Washington with updated consent documents that inform surgical patients about the prospect of overlapping surgeries.
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Two settlements in Nisqually tribal jail death: One for $375K, the other secret
The outcome highlights the lack of full transparency and accountability that can occur when a local government agency — in this case the city of Yelm — enters into an agreement with an Indian tribe to...
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Podcast: Investigative reporter Mike Baker on double-booked surgeries and...
An aggressive pursuit of more patients, more surgeries and more dollars has placed patients at Seattle’s Swedish Health in jeopardy. That was the upshot of one of the first stories The Seattle Times...
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Attorney disputes allegations against neurosurgeon Dr. Johnny Delashaw
An attorney for former Swedish neurosurgeon Dr. Johnny Delashaw disputed allegations that he yelled and cursed at staff, saying accusers had a “personal agenda” against him.
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Name change for prostitution charge in Seattle brings errors in background...
Two years ago the city of Seattle changed the name of the misdemeanor crime of patronizing a prostitute to sexual exploitation. The change has gotten at least one man fired from a job after a faulty...
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‘You just hit this wall’: The long road taken by many in a ‘rapid’ homeless...
Even after being placed in a rapid rehousing program, a local single father figured he’d have to hustle to find housing in King County. Two months later, he was still looking.
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Experts in medical journal call for curbing ‘abuses’ in overlapping surgeries
The article, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, gives a series of recommendations for how to improve transparency and accountability when doctors run multiple operating rooms at the...
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Oregon opens records of sexual-abuse investigation into Ed Murray, acting ‘in...
The Oregon Department of Human Services was persuaded to release foster-parent records about Seattle Mayor Ed Murray because of his standing as a public official and because he urged media to get them.
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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray sexually abused foster son, child-welfare...
Records previously thought destroyed provide the clearest picture yet of the investigation of claims Ed Murray sexually abused his foster son.
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Podcast: How records of 1984 sexual-abuse investigation of Ed Murray came to...
Another bombshell landed this week in the ongoing story of sexual-abuse allegations against Seattle Mayor Ed Murray. Public records previously thought destroyed show an Oregon child-welfare...
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Homeless students drawn to Seattle schools by sports are often cast aside...
Laws aimed at creating some stability in the lives of homeless students are being misused in some Seattle high schools to sidestep academic and anti-recruitment rules. Coaches, former players and...
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Busted: How police brought down a tech-savvy prostitution network in Bellevue
Local tech workers used computer skills to help create websites where men would promote and rate South Korean prostitutes working in upscale Bellevue apartments. The escalation of activity led a...
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Garfield guidance counselor under investigation
The Seattle school district filed a complaint with the state superintendent’s Office of Professional Practice in June, alleging that Raymond Willis violated state law that requires school employees...
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Seattle’s pesticide phaseout lags: Potentially harmful products used in parks
Despite the city’s commitment to lower its use of pesticides, Seattle continues to apply thousands of gallons of pesticides to its parks and golf courses each year. And some parks the city branded...
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Will new DNA evidence vindicate Yakima man cleared in 1995 rape?
New DNA evidence uncovered by attorneys representing Ted Bradford in a federal lawsuit now links the rape to the victim’s brother-in-law. They’re hoping the Yakima County prosecutor and police act on it.
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Seafair Pirates, accused of targeting women and showing up drunk, no longer...
Four former members of the Seafair Pirates say they have left the group due to what they described as a growing emphasis on drinking alcohol and targeting women. Five organizations have suspended the...
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Swedish Health largely bans overlapping surgeries
Swedish Health’s new CEO, Dr. Guy Hudson, said in an interview Monday that the organization is overhauling how it approaches overlapping surgeries, the subject of a recent Seattle Times investigation.
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