Carrie Teegardin

Carrie Teegardin

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Carrie Teegardin is a reporter and part of the investigative team at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She is a graduate of Duke University and has won numerous national journalism awards. She was a lead reporter on the AJC's award-winning Unprotected series, which prompted Georgia to reform its requirements for senior care homes in 2020. She was a lead reporter on the AJC's Doctors & Sex Abuse national investigation, which was a Pulitzer finalist. She was a lead reporter on the AJC's Borrower Beware series, which won a Gerald Loeb award in 2006. She has written extensively about health care, unfair business practices and the criminal justice system.

Carrie Teegardin staff image

Carrie Teegardin is a reporter and part of the investigative team at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She is a graduate of Duke University and has won numerous national journalism awards. She was a lead reporter on the AJC's award-winning Unprotected series, which prompted Georgia to reform its requirements for senior care homes in 2020. She was a lead reporter on the AJC's Doctors & Sex Abuse national investigation, which was a Pulitzer finalist. She was a lead reporter on the AJC's Borrower Beware series, which won a Gerald Loeb award in 2006. She has written extensively about health care, unfair business practices and the criminal justice system.

Latest from Carrie Teegardin

Report supports AJC investigation that Georgia is lax in disciplining doctors

The Georgia Composite Medical Board ranks next to last nationally when it comes to imposing serious disciplinary actions against physicians, according to a new report.

Inspections uncover violations at Georgia med spas, IV clinics

A new effort by Georgia's medical board came after an AJC investigation exposed the risks in the state’s wellness and alternative medicine industry.

Tempted to try a wellness or longevity treatment? Here’s what experts say.

Patients may not know that these treatments are experimental or about the risks they may pose. The latest in AJC's investigation on alternative medicine in Georgia.

Who’s providing alternative medicine in Georgia, and what they can, can’t do

Georgia law limits the scope of practice for healthcare providers, including those at IV clinics, med spas and alternative medicine clinics.

Underfunded Georgia medical board does little to stop doctors who cross the line

Georgia's medical board can't keep up with its responsibilities, including investigating complaints and overseeing doctors with multiple malpractice payouts.

Why you will have problems checking out your Georgia doctor

A doctor's felony conviction is required to be posted on the medical board website, but the information is missing and other facts are inaccurate, the AJC found.

Desperate patients seek cures, leave with debt and regret

An AJC investigation found some Georgia alternative medicine clinics marketing unproven treatments and costly supplements to desperate patients.

Atlanta clinic promoting unconventional medicine has controversial history

Social media and marketing have built Progressive Medical Center into one of the most prominent alternative medical clinics in Georgia, if not the entire Southeast

Nurses concerned about Georgia medical board’s announcement on IV clinics

A move by the Georgia Medical Board to protect patients seeking care at the growing number of IV therapy clinics across the state leads to a backlash from nurses.

Welcome to Georgia, where questionable therapies flourish with little oversight

Hundreds of Georgia wellness clinics promote unproven treatments with little oversight from one of the nation’s weakest medical boards, an AJC investigation found.