Two images drive Oruba Odeh's passion for starting a speech clinic in Jordan, her native country. The first was in 2006 when she saw a young child at a clinic waiting to be screened for surgery for his cleft lip.
"When I saw him, he hid his face in his mother's lap because he thought he had an ugly face. That picture stayed with me and is a reason why I volunteer to work with Operation Smile," said Odeh, a speech-language pathologist ... more
Pediatric nurse Camille Echols knew better.
She was well aware of the rules - both written and unwritten - against getting emotionally attached to patients. And she understood the logic behind them.
But the head and the heart often don't agree ... more
In 2006, Georgia's Department of Community Health contracted with a private organization - the Georgia Medical Care Foundation (GMCF) - to monitor the quality of its Medicaid waiver program.
The organization has a Herculean task. It makes sure that the more than 1 million recipients of Medicaid in Georgia get the services they need and that the 60,000 to 80,000 physicians offices, hospitals, nursing homes and home-health agencies appropriately provide and bill for that care, without fraud or ... more