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But in any event, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=46&articleid=20121216_46_E1_CUTLIN180852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">success of the technology\u003c/a> means that companies are more confident in their ability to extract oil efficiently and economically, and they’re ready to bring these improved techniques to California, which boasts the \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/with-large-oil-reserve-california-faces-fracking-debate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">country’s largest shale oil resource\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the fracking debate heats up here, a few things to pay attention to, compiled from \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201212190900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED Public Radio’s recent Forum show on the regulations\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. DOGGR\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state agency that released the draft regulations is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/Pages/Index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Conservation’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources\u003c/a> — “DOGGR” to friends. DOGGR is calling the first version of the guidelines a “discussion draft.” What does that mean? According to its website: “It is a starting point for discussion by key stakeholders – industry, the environmental community, and other regulators, as well as interested members of the public – in preparation for the more formal process, which probably will begin in early 2013.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are one of those interested members of the public, you can email your suggestions and concerns to comments@conservation.ca.gov. You can also sign up for updates on the regulation process and read the draft document \u003ca href=\"http://www.conservation.ca.gov/Index/Pages/Index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Well Integrity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seemingly all sides of the fracking debate agree that the infrastructure of hydraulic fracturing, the wells themselves, is key to keeping the public safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathleen McGinty, former secretary of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/dep_home/5968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection\u003c/a>, said that well integrity is especially important in hydraulic fracturing because “the well actually goes through the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquifer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aquifer\u003c/a>; it goes past where you are drawing your drinking water from. So it is incredibly important that the well is developed properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGinty says that many people worry about the injected fracturing fluids contaminating drinking water. Instead, she said, the focus needs to be on preventing gas or oil leakage from wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where water quality has been compromised is not in the fracturing fluids getting into the water, but in there being leaks in the well so that the gas or the oil migrates into the drinking water,” said McGinty. “That is a problem. It is preventable, and we ought to keep our eye on that ball.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole issue, really, around hydraulic fracturing focuses on the integrity of the well,” said Catherine Reheis-Boyd, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wspa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western States Petroleum Association\u003c/a>. “If that is maintained then hydraulic fracturing is not any different than any other oil-stimulating production technique. Those regulations are in place, have been in place, and it’s the reason, frankly, there has been no evidence of groundwater contamination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Water Use\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Mark Twain said: “Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over.” Nowhere is that more true than in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When prompted by Forum guest host \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/about/staff/scott-shafer.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott Shafer\u003c/a> to name a safety control she would like to see in place that may not sit well with oil companies, McGinty brought up water conservation, not water pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the sustainability of the gas and oil industry needs to be going in a direction of very significantly reducing its water footprint,” said McGinty. “Not just not polluting the water, but actually going to zero net consumption of water. Cleaning water, conserving water, that would be a big challenge, but I have to believe in a place like California it would be vitally important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft regulations do not currently address water consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. The Upside\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/magazine/welcome-to-saudi-albany.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A recent article in the New York Times Magazine\u003c/a> quoted an analyst who says “that the natural gas industry will bring around three million new jobs to the United States by the end of this decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same article described natural gas extraction via fracking as “the economic equivalent of a gift from the heavens” for the American steel industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s more than economic benefits at stake. \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/05/usa-energy-independence-renewable/1749073/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Energy independence\u003c/a>, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California only produces 30 percent of what it needs in crude oil, said Reheis-Boyd, which leaves us relying on foreign imports. According to Reheis-Boyd, 42 million gallons of gasoline and 11 million gallons of diesel are used daily for transportation in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have projections out to 2035 that 80 percent of our needs are going to be produced by coal, gas and oil,” said Reheis-Boyd. “If we stopped all of this tomorrow, we would have a revolution in California for people who expect to get up every day and drive from A to B affordably, to turn their lights on, and heat and cool their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And McGinty argues that increased natural gas production has actually led to lower greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have what’s called ‘coal to gas switching,'” said McGinty, “with a lot more natural gas coming on and that has led to a pretty significant drop — for the first time in decades — in greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Trade Secret Exemptions: Big Loophole?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Companies will have to disclose what they’re injecting into the ground, which often includes diesel compounds and known carcinogens, unless they claim a ‘trade secret’ exemption,'” said KQED’s Lauren Sommer. Under the exemption, companies only have to disclose what family the injected chemicals are from. Critics say this is a loophole, one that has been taken for granted — \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/18/calif-regulators-release-draft-fracking-regulations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">19,000 times\u003c/a>, in fact — by companies in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the controversy over transparency doesn’t end there. People will only know about fracking at a specific location if they check a \u003ca href=\"http://fracfocus.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">designated website\u003c/a>, most likely several days before the fracking begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no rule that says that oil companies actually have to notify land owners nearby,” said Sommer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That does not sit well with critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have people who live in an oil drilling area look at the website every day to find out if a well is going to be drilled and fracked near them is basically absurd,” said Bill Allayaud, California Director of Government Affairs for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Working Group\u003c/a>. “Why can’t, when someone’s building a project in your neighborhood, you get a notice by mail?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reheis-Boyd defends the exemption: “Trade secrets are really not about oil companies as much as they are in promoting competition, and that competition always benefits the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Interagency Coordination\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR acknowledges environmental concerns about groundwater, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions but isn’t quite sure if they fall under its jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly, there is a big concern with air pollution and methane, which is a pretty potent greenhouse gas which comes out of wells,” said Sommer. “And there is obviously a concern with groundwater supply. But [DOGGR] is saying they’re in discussions with other agencies about how to deal with those issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So keeping up on California’s fracking regulations means following the bureaucratic bridges between DOGGR, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Water Resources Control Board\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/cc.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Air Resources Board\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last week, California \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/18/calif-regulators-release-draft-fracking-regulations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued draft regulations\u003c/a> for fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, an increasingly popular but controversial method of oil and natural gas retrieval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How does fracking work? KQED Science’s Lauren Sommer \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/with-large-oil-reserve-california-faces-fracking-debate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explains\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Millions of gallons of water, mixed with sand and chemicals, are injected underground at high pressure. That cracks the rocks, letting the oil out. Around the country, hydraulic fracturing has led to record levels of oil and gas production.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83253\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/fracking.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-83253\" title=\"With AFP Story by Veronique DUPONT: US-E\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/fracking-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers change the pipes in a fracking operation in Waynesburg, PA. (Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While fracking has been big news for a while in Pennsylvania, North Dakota and elsewhere in the country, it has yet to become a popular topic of dinner conversation in California. That’s likely going to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Gautier, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, told Lauren Sommer that while fracking has actually been used in California for decades, “a bit of a Gold Rush mentality concerning shale oil” currently exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is new right now is that the price of oil is reasonably high,” Gautier said. “This technology has become very sophisticated. So these explorationists are justifiably optimistic about the idea of being able to get out oil that couldn’t have been accessed just a few decades ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some environmentalists aren’t happy about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is absolutely a danger of California being transformed almost overnight, as other areas of the country have been when the fracking boom hits,” Kassie Siegel, a lawyer with the non-profit Center for Biological Diversity, told Lauren Sommer. “In other parts of the country, we’ve seen contaminated water. We’ve seen people who live near oil and gas wells complaining of health effects.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether those impacts are specifically caused by fracking is under debate, says Sommer. But in any event, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=46&articleid=20121216_46_E1_CUTLIN180852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">success of the technology\u003c/a> means that companies are more confident in their ability to extract oil efficiently and economically, and they’re ready to bring these improved techniques to California, which boasts the \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/with-large-oil-reserve-california-faces-fracking-debate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">country’s largest shale oil resource\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the fracking debate heats up here, a few things to pay attention to, compiled from \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201212190900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED Public Radio’s recent Forum show on the regulations\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. DOGGR\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state agency that released the draft regulations is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/Pages/Index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Conservation’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources\u003c/a> — “DOGGR” to friends. DOGGR is calling the first version of the guidelines a “discussion draft.” What does that mean? According to its website: “It is a starting point for discussion by key stakeholders – industry, the environmental community, and other regulators, as well as interested members of the public – in preparation for the more formal process, which probably will begin in early 2013.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are one of those interested members of the public, you can email your suggestions and concerns to comments@conservation.ca.gov. You can also sign up for updates on the regulation process and read the draft document \u003ca href=\"http://www.conservation.ca.gov/Index/Pages/Index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Well Integrity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seemingly all sides of the fracking debate agree that the infrastructure of hydraulic fracturing, the wells themselves, is key to keeping the public safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathleen McGinty, former secretary of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/dep_home/5968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection\u003c/a>, said that well integrity is especially important in hydraulic fracturing because “the well actually goes through the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquifer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aquifer\u003c/a>; it goes past where you are drawing your drinking water from. So it is incredibly important that the well is developed properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGinty says that many people worry about the injected fracturing fluids contaminating drinking water. Instead, she said, the focus needs to be on preventing gas or oil leakage from wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where water quality has been compromised is not in the fracturing fluids getting into the water, but in there being leaks in the well so that the gas or the oil migrates into the drinking water,” said McGinty. “That is a problem. It is preventable, and we ought to keep our eye on that ball.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole issue, really, around hydraulic fracturing focuses on the integrity of the well,” said Catherine Reheis-Boyd, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wspa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western States Petroleum Association\u003c/a>. “If that is maintained then hydraulic fracturing is not any different than any other oil-stimulating production technique. Those regulations are in place, have been in place, and it’s the reason, frankly, there has been no evidence of groundwater contamination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Water Use\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Mark Twain said: “Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over.” Nowhere is that more true than in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When prompted by Forum guest host \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/about/staff/scott-shafer.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott Shafer\u003c/a> to name a safety control she would like to see in place that may not sit well with oil companies, McGinty brought up water conservation, not water pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the sustainability of the gas and oil industry needs to be going in a direction of very significantly reducing its water footprint,” said McGinty. “Not just not polluting the water, but actually going to zero net consumption of water. Cleaning water, conserving water, that would be a big challenge, but I have to believe in a place like California it would be vitally important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft regulations do not currently address water consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. The Upside\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/magazine/welcome-to-saudi-albany.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A recent article in the New York Times Magazine\u003c/a> quoted an analyst who says “that the natural gas industry will bring around three million new jobs to the United States by the end of this decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same article described natural gas extraction via fracking as “the economic equivalent of a gift from the heavens” for the American steel industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s more than economic benefits at stake. \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/05/usa-energy-independence-renewable/1749073/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Energy independence\u003c/a>, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California only produces 30 percent of what it needs in crude oil, said Reheis-Boyd, which leaves us relying on foreign imports. 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Trade Secret Exemptions: Big Loophole?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Companies will have to disclose what they’re injecting into the ground, which often includes diesel compounds and known carcinogens, unless they claim a ‘trade secret’ exemption,'” said KQED’s Lauren Sommer. Under the exemption, companies only have to disclose what family the injected chemicals are from. Critics say this is a loophole, one that has been taken for granted — \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/18/calif-regulators-release-draft-fracking-regulations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">19,000 times\u003c/a>, in fact — by companies in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the controversy over transparency doesn’t end there. People will only know about fracking at a specific location if they check a \u003ca href=\"http://fracfocus.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">designated website\u003c/a>, most likely several days before the fracking begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no rule that says that oil companies actually have to notify land owners nearby,” said Sommer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That does not sit well with critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have people who live in an oil drilling area look at the website every day to find out if a well is going to be drilled and fracked near them is basically absurd,” said Bill Allayaud, California Director of Government Affairs for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Working Group\u003c/a>. “Why can’t, when someone’s building a project in your neighborhood, you get a notice by mail?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reheis-Boyd defends the exemption: “Trade secrets are really not about oil companies as much as they are in promoting competition, and that competition always benefits the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Aaron Glantz, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/accuracy-isn%E2%80%99t-priority-va-battles-disability-claims-backlog-3983\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Navy cook Hosea Roundtree watched the 1983 shelling of Beirut from the deck of a ship, feelings of helplessness washing over him as people perished onshore. That memory haunted him, resurrected in flashbacks eight years later after a tour in the Gulf during Operation Desert Storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Roundtree’s claim for disability compensation crossed Jamie Fox’s desk at the Department of Veterans Affairs more than two decades later, it was slated for denial on the grounds that he had never seen combat. Fox, herself a Navy veteran, tried to straighten things out – and for that, she lost her job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/QW9Biy76gBQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawsuit filed by the former VA disability claims representative provides a rare glimpse into what veterans’ advocates call systemic problems in how the agency handles compensation claims filed by Americans wounded physically or mentally in the line of duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Center for Investigative Reporting review of the VA’s performance data reveals chronic errors – committed in up to 1 in 3 cases – and an emphasis on speed over accuracy that clogs the VA system with appeals, increasing delays for all veterans. \u003c!--more-->“When the VA makes a mistake processing a veteran’s claim, then our veterans face another unacceptably long wait,” said Paul Sullivan, a Gulf War veteran and former senior VA project manager who now works for the Washington, D.C.-area law firm Bergmann & Moore. “These veterans, many of whom are unemployable due to disabilities, often lose their homes and are unable to put food on the table for themselves and their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of mid-October,\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/510536-101512-1.html\"> appeals represented nearly a third of the more than 819,000 pending disability claims\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong> Nationwide over the past year, the average time a veteran waits for a decision has \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/veterans/interactive/map-disabled-vets-stuck-backlog-limbo/\">increased by more than two months – to 260 days.\u003c/a> Veterans who appeal wait an average of 3½ years, according to VA performance data obtained by CIR through the Freedom of Information Act.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a deposition related to a federal discrimination complaint filed by Fox, the head of the Oakland VA regional office where Fox worked, Lynn Flint, said “it didn’t matter if the decision (to deny Roundtree’s claim) was right or wrong.” In proceedings related to Fox’s wrongful termination suit, Flint and Fox’s supervisor, Kim Yarbrough, argued that Fox exceeded her authority by advocating for additional review of Roundtree’s case, lowering her productivity to unacceptable levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Roundtree disagreed with the denial, Yarbrough said, he could always appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VA declined to comment further on Fox’s dismissal, citing the ongoing litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, the VA’s inability to stem a tide of errors has increasingly frustrated lawmakers from both political parties, who frequently hear from distraught constituents challenging their denials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Veterans’ Appeals found errors by VA staff in 35,000 of the nearly 50,000 appeals decided in 2011, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bva.va.gov/docs/Chairmans_Annual_Rpts/BVA2011AR.pdf\">board’s annual report [PDF]\u003c/a>. In 29 percent of cases, the board overturned the agency’s initial decision and ruled in favor of the veteran. In 44 percent, the board said VA staff committed an error and sent the cases back to the agency’s regional office for additional review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no benefit in pushing a determination out that is wrong because, in the end, it will be appealed, and it’s going to make the record look even worse,” said U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat working to reform the VA’s Oakland office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VA acknowledges it makes mistakes on 14 percent of disability claims – an error rate the agency considers unacceptable and has pledged to all but eliminate by 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CIR analysis of 18 audits published this year by the VA’s inspector general shows the problem could be much worse, especially in high-profile cases. The analysis found a 38 percent average error rate for claims involving disabilities like \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury/\">traumatic brain injury\u003c/a> and illnesses linked to the Vietnam-era defoliant \u003ca href=\"http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/\">Agent Orange\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Linda Halliday, the agency’s assistant inspector general for audits and evaluations, \u003ca href=\"http://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/statements/VAOIG-statement-20120619-halliday.pdf\">told a House committee [PDF]\u003c/a> that 19 of the 20 regional offices inspected in 2011 failed to follow department policy for claims related to traumatic brain injury, one of the signature injuries of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VA officials say the inspector general’s reports “do not present a true picture of the overall quality of the work performed” by VA employees. The Office of Inspector General, the agency said in a statement, “samples specific types of claims, and its results do not represent the university of disability claims processed at a Regional Office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VA employee Fox was forced out in 2008, after she told her supervisor that the agency was poised to wrongfully deny benefits to Roundtree, a 17-year Navy veteran who claimed to have developed post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. The VA said it could find no evidence that Roundtree had experienced combat in Beirut, but through an Internet search Fox confirmed his ship, the USS Arthur W. Radford, had engaged in battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a gut-wrenching story when I went through his file,” Fox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roundtree, she said, had “been a star in the Navy” but ended up homeless on the streets of Long Beach after a mental breakdown. Years of drug abuse left him estranged from his wife and daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox wrote a four-page memo to her supervisor arguing that the VA should “wait to send out the award of denial” to allow further research. Five months later, the VA gave her a choice: Resign or be fired. She opted to resign to keep her federal employment record clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fox’s termination letter, the head of the Oakland office, Flint, criticized Fox for “failure to follow instructions” and “misuse of time” for not immediately sending Roundtree a letter denying his benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years earlier, when Roundtree filed his claim, he was living in a transitional housing program for homeless veterans on the VA’s hospital complex in West Los Angeles. The former petty officer 1st class had been in and out of jail and lived on the streets for more than a decade following his tour in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roundtree, now 54, blames his service in the Gulf for triggering intense flashbacks of the shelling of Beirut. He received an honorable discharge from the Navy in 1989, but received a bad-conduct discharge for drug use after re-enlisting and serving in the Gulf. Roundtree says he began using crack cocaine after leaving the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost it. I had a major breakdown,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1993, he walked out on his wife and two daughters and buried himself in crack to blot out the intrusive thoughts of carnage along the Lebanese shore. “I couldn’t shut my mind down,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he finally received a denial letter from the VA in 2008, he said its words came as a shock. It cited insufficient evidence “to confirm that you actually engaged in combat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Roundtree calls Fox “an angel” for catching an apparent error that might have cost him thousands of dollars in compensation for his war wounds, and he expresses outrage that she was forced out for speaking up on his behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need people like Jamie to be in the office to help us,” he said. “Not just for me – for me and every other vet that’s out there that’s suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Productivity is priority\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years after Fox left her job, she and the VA continue to battle in court. Government lawyers argue that it does not matter whether VA employees wrongly deny claims. What is important, officials said, is to be highly productive – as measured by the number of cases employees clear from the inventory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under questioning from Administrative Law Judge Virginia Mellema MaGee in 2010, Fox’s supervisor, Yarbrough, said Fox should have immediately sent Roundtree a letter denying his claim despite her concerns because “it was a very old case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of writing a memo questioning the denial’s accuracy, Yarbrough said Fox should have spent no more than half an hour preparing and sending that denial letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What should have occurred was the end product,” Yarbrough said. Roundtree’s claim “should have been just cleared in the system” – the file sent to a storage facility in suburban San Bruno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon Erspamer, a senior counsel based in San Francisco at the law firm Morrison & Foerster who has practiced veterans law for more than three decades, said the agency likely violated the Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000 in Roundtree’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The courts have held that the VA has a duty to assist the veteran in developing the facts and evidence to support his or her claim,” Erspamer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/509336-p-1312-2008-03-31-vacols-detailed-remand-reasons.html\">One internal VA document\u003c/a>, made public in a federal class-action lawsuit brought by Erspamer’s firm, shows that during the first three months of 2008 – around the time Fox was urging the VA to take another look at Roundtree’s claim – the agency failed to perform its duty to assist in nearly 11,000 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meeting face to face\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Fox lost her job, she went on unemployment and moved in with her sister. Two years later, she found a new job – working at a VA health care center in Santa Rosa, where she earns about the same salary as before she lost her job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six months ago, she found Roundtree on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so nervous calling. I didn’t know how he was going to respond,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What she hoped to hear was that his claim had been approved, she said, “or if it wasn’t approved that he would have appealed it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Roundtree had never filed an appeal. The day he received his denial letter, he coincidentally received a job offer – also from the VA. Roundtree now works as a cook at the VA Medical Center in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Fox and Roundtree met for the first time. Because the time limit for Roundtree to appeal his denial had passed, Fox helped him file a new disability claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just for me. 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In 29 percent of cases, the board overturned the agency’s initial decision and ruled in favor of the veteran. In 44 percent, the board said VA staff committed an error and sent the cases back to the agency’s regional office for additional review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no benefit in pushing a determination out that is wrong because, in the end, it will be appealed, and it’s going to make the record look even worse,” said U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat working to reform the VA’s Oakland office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VA acknowledges it makes mistakes on 14 percent of disability claims – an error rate the agency considers unacceptable and has pledged to all but eliminate by 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CIR analysis of 18 audits published this year by the VA’s inspector general shows the problem could be much worse, especially in high-profile cases. The analysis found a 38 percent average error rate for claims involving disabilities like \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury/\">traumatic brain injury\u003c/a> and illnesses linked to the Vietnam-era defoliant \u003ca href=\"http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/\">Agent Orange\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Linda Halliday, the agency’s assistant inspector general for audits and evaluations, \u003ca href=\"http://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/statements/VAOIG-statement-20120619-halliday.pdf\">told a House committee [PDF]\u003c/a> that 19 of the 20 regional offices inspected in 2011 failed to follow department policy for claims related to traumatic brain injury, one of the signature injuries of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VA officials say the inspector general’s reports “do not present a true picture of the overall quality of the work performed” by VA employees. The Office of Inspector General, the agency said in a statement, “samples specific types of claims, and its results do not represent the university of disability claims processed at a Regional Office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VA employee Fox was forced out in 2008, after she told her supervisor that the agency was poised to wrongfully deny benefits to Roundtree, a 17-year Navy veteran who claimed to have developed post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. The VA said it could find no evidence that Roundtree had experienced combat in Beirut, but through an Internet search Fox confirmed his ship, the USS Arthur W. Radford, had engaged in battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a gut-wrenching story when I went through his file,” Fox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roundtree, she said, had “been a star in the Navy” but ended up homeless on the streets of Long Beach after a mental breakdown. Years of drug abuse left him estranged from his wife and daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox wrote a four-page memo to her supervisor arguing that the VA should “wait to send out the award of denial” to allow further research. Five months later, the VA gave her a choice: Resign or be fired. She opted to resign to keep her federal employment record clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fox’s termination letter, the head of the Oakland office, Flint, criticized Fox for “failure to follow instructions” and “misuse of time” for not immediately sending Roundtree a letter denying his benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years earlier, when Roundtree filed his claim, he was living in a transitional housing program for homeless veterans on the VA’s hospital complex in West Los Angeles. The former petty officer 1st class had been in and out of jail and lived on the streets for more than a decade following his tour in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roundtree, now 54, blames his service in the Gulf for triggering intense flashbacks of the shelling of Beirut. He received an honorable discharge from the Navy in 1989, but received a bad-conduct discharge for drug use after re-enlisting and serving in the Gulf. Roundtree says he began using crack cocaine after leaving the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost it. I had a major breakdown,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1993, he walked out on his wife and two daughters and buried himself in crack to blot out the intrusive thoughts of carnage along the Lebanese shore. “I couldn’t shut my mind down,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he finally received a denial letter from the VA in 2008, he said its words came as a shock. It cited insufficient evidence “to confirm that you actually engaged in combat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Roundtree calls Fox “an angel” for catching an apparent error that might have cost him thousands of dollars in compensation for his war wounds, and he expresses outrage that she was forced out for speaking up on his behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need people like Jamie to be in the office to help us,” he said. “Not just for me – for me and every other vet that’s out there that’s suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Productivity is priority\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years after Fox left her job, she and the VA continue to battle in court. Government lawyers argue that it does not matter whether VA employees wrongly deny claims. What is important, officials said, is to be highly productive – as measured by the number of cases employees clear from the inventory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under questioning from Administrative Law Judge Virginia Mellema MaGee in 2010, Fox’s supervisor, Yarbrough, said Fox should have immediately sent Roundtree a letter denying his claim despite her concerns because “it was a very old case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of writing a memo questioning the denial’s accuracy, Yarbrough said Fox should have spent no more than half an hour preparing and sending that denial letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What should have occurred was the end product,” Yarbrough said. Roundtree’s claim “should have been just cleared in the system” – the file sent to a storage facility in suburban San Bruno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon Erspamer, a senior counsel based in San Francisco at the law firm Morrison & Foerster who has practiced veterans law for more than three decades, said the agency likely violated the Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000 in Roundtree’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The courts have held that the VA has a duty to assist the veteran in developing the facts and evidence to support his or her claim,” Erspamer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/509336-p-1312-2008-03-31-vacols-detailed-remand-reasons.html\">One internal VA document\u003c/a>, made public in a federal class-action lawsuit brought by Erspamer’s firm, shows that during the first three months of 2008 – around the time Fox was urging the VA to take another look at Roundtree’s claim – the agency failed to perform its duty to assist in nearly 11,000 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meeting face to face\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Fox lost her job, she went on unemployment and moved in with her sister. Two years later, she found a new job – working at a VA health care center in Santa Rosa, where she earns about the same salary as before she lost her job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six months ago, she found Roundtree on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so nervous calling. I didn’t know how he was going to respond,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What she hoped to hear was that his claim had been approved, she said, “or if it wasn’t approved that he would have appealed it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Roundtree had never filed an appeal. The day he received his denial letter, he coincidentally received a job offer – also from the VA. Roundtree now works as a cook at the VA Medical Center in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Fox and Roundtree met for the first time. Because the time limit for Roundtree to appeal his denial had passed, Fox helped him file a new disability claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just for me. 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The report, which is issued when the board’s charter is set to be renewed by lawmakers, calls for more staff to launch a Northern California unit in addition to the existing six-person Southern California Operation Safe Medicine team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Board believes that the OSM Unit is imperative in order to protect the public from the actions of unlicensed practitioners,” Jennifer Simoes, the medical board’s chief of legislation, said in a statement. “OSM staff has the specialized training and expertise necessary to address the continued proliferation of unlicensed cases.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, an Encinitas woman, Kathleen Ann Helms, represented herself as a doctor of naturopathy at an office called BrightHouse Wellness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According \u003ca href=\"http://www.fbi.gov/sandiego/press-releases/2012/encinitas-woman-arrested-on-charges-of-practicing-medicine-without-a-license\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to the FBI\u003c/a>, which probed the case with the medical board staff, Helms diagnosed patients with Lyme disease and prescribed injections of bovine stem cells and dimethyl sulfoxide, a solvent used in some medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One patient was sent to a Tijuana hospital to have a catheter line installed in her arm so she could get intravenous treatments, an FBI account of the case said. The patient paid Helms $30,000 for treatments, including an initial seven-hour intravenous session. After a fourth infusion session, the patient grew so ill that she went to an emergency room and was hospitalized for six weeks, the FBI said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helms, 57, was arrested Aug. 13 in Encinitas. Her attorney did not return a call for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charges were filed in December against a San Francisco man accused of performing liposuction while smoking a cigar. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdistrictattorney.com/index.aspx?page=175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prosecutors say\u003c/a> Carlos Guzmangarza, 49, operated with no assistant and had the client hold her own IV bag while he performed the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzmangarza assumed the identity of a physician assistant who shared a similar name and ran Derma Clinic, a dermatology office on Mission Street in San Francisco, according to prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an initial round of press coverage spurred additional victims to come forward, prosecutors filed amended charges against him in April. They included practicing medicine without a license, false impersonation, identity theft, rape and grand theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzmangarza’s attorney did not return a call for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cases investigated by the unit have focused on vendors selling “big eye” contact lenses in Los Angeles. The lenses are popular in Asia and make the iris of the eye appear larger, but they can also cause eye damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/-San-Jose-Man-Convicted-of-Posing-as-Toenail-Fungus-Doctor-160296925.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another case\u003c/a> involved Cary Silberman, a Santa Clara County man who performed laser treatments to remove toenail fungus at his Shiny Toes clinics in San Francisco and San Ramon. He was sentenced to four years and eight months on charges of practicing medicine without a license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other investigations focused on lay people performing childbirth, facelifts and hemorrhoid surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Operation Safe Medicine team was established in 2000 and operated for three years before it disbanded amid budget constraints, according to the sunset report. It reactivated in 2009 after legislation called for public hearings regarding unlicensed practitioners offering laser and cosmetic procedures, according to the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, its investigations have resulted in six felony convictions and 18 misdemeanor convictions. Lawmakers will consider expanding that enforcement team and other issues brought forward in the report during hearings next year.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But that doesn’t mean the former base is ready for a proposed 20,000-resident community approved this year by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. At cordoned off areas around the island, the cleanup of contamination continues in and around areas slated for future construction.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy acknowledged at an Oct. 16 community meeting that extensive work remains, including additional radiation surveys of locations such as the former site of the USS Pandemonium, a mock-up ship used to train sailors to decontaminate ships hit with nuclear fallout. That site is surrounded by former barracks now used as low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the Navy has yet to respond to recent reports that the military has not fully vetted Treasure Island for possible nuclear waste. On Oct. 4, state health officials told the Navy that it had not adequately explored the possibility that during its years as a military base, Treasure Island might have been dusted with radioactive ash, soaked with radioactive sewage and contaminated with radioactive garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy plans to formally answer the health officials’ critique by mid-December, according to Melanie Ault, Base Realignment and Closure Program coordinator for the Navy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of all the public areas surveyed recently, only one showed elevated levels. An infield of the baseball field located at Avenue H and Ninth Street, with the exception of the area around third base, had a radiation level “slightly less than twice background. The soil in the affected area was noticeably darker,” wrote John G. 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Most readings came in at “background radiation levels.” Some minimal radiation exists everywhere, but those readings are low enough to not be considered a health risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team looked at one fenced area next to a soccer field where cleanup workers from Shaw Environmental store radioactive waste in a large box inside a second fenced area. The restricted area inside that locked gate showed readings ranging from 20 to 90 microrems per hour – still well below the levels the Environmental Protection Agency recognizes as a health threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area was surveyed after a report of an entrance to the larger fenced area being left open. 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That also reduces the cost of transporting and guarding them while they are treated outside of the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can save the taxpayer a lot of money by coming in to handle things,” said Dr. Vache Chakmakian, who works 90 miles from Ironwood State Prison near Blythe, a southern desert city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakmakian was paid $358,645 last year — his regular pay of $239,572 plus $119,072 for frequently working overnight and holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal judges and receivers who oversee medical and mental health care said boosting pay significantly was the only way to attract quality employees to such jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One result is that of the top 100 highest-paid state employees outside the University of California system last year, 44 worked in the prisons, according to an Associated Press analysis of state payroll data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They averaged nearly $379,000 in salary and were led by the $803,271 paid to a psychiatrist at Salinas Valley State Prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Base salaries for prison psychiatrists range from $126,000 to $281,952, depending on seniority and other factors, with chief psychiatrists paid more. 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That also reduces the cost of transporting and guarding them while they are treated outside of the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can save the taxpayer a lot of money by coming in to handle things,” said Dr. Vache Chakmakian, who works 90 miles from Ironwood State Prison near Blythe, a southern desert city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakmakian was paid $358,645 last year — his regular pay of $239,572 plus $119,072 for frequently working overnight and holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal judges and receivers who oversee medical and mental health care said boosting pay significantly was the only way to attract quality employees to such jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One result is that of the top 100 highest-paid state employees outside the University of California system last year, 44 worked in the prisons, according to an Associated Press analysis of state payroll data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They averaged nearly $379,000 in salary and were led by the $803,271 paid to a psychiatrist at Salinas Valley State Prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Base salaries for prison psychiatrists range from $126,000 to $281,952, depending on seniority and other factors, with chief psychiatrists paid more. 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"content": "\u003cp>by Christina Jewett, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/medical-board-revokes-license-prolific-opioid-prescriber-18470\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state medical board has revoked the license of an East Bay physician who prescribed high amounts of narcotic pain medications to indigent patients, three of whom died while under his care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78546\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/manougian.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78546\" title=\"manougian\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/manougian-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Edward Manougian at his office in Richmond, CA in June, 2012 (Photo: Michael Short/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Administrative Law Judge Mary-Margaret Anderson concluded that Edward Manougian, 83, prescribed excessive amounts and did little to monitor possible medication abuse or sales on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With blinders firmly in place, he conducted his practice in accordance with his own idiosyncratic views and methods, in disregard of the safety of his patients and the public health,” Anderson wrote in a proposed decision adopted last Friday by the state’s medical board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manougian declined to comment in detail about the decision, only saying, “What you put out was total lies, and everybody who knows me knows it’s a total lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/health-and-welfare/fbi-state-target-east-bay-doctor-large-prescriptions-painkillers-17002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Watch examined\u003c/a> the medical board’s administrative court case against Manougian, who was one of the state’s most prolific prescribers of opioid painkillers to low-income Medi-Cal patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that he prescribed doses that were 12 times higher than what pain specialists consider high. One consensus group of pain \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/395731-aps-chronic-pain-guidelines-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">specialists concluded\u003c/a> that prescribing more than 200 milligrams of morphine-equivalent medications per day calls for a thorough reassessment of patient care. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manougian said he routinely prescribed far more, saying he had a unique understanding of how to help the 240 patients who paid cash at his solo practice in Hercules and Pinole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his legal defense, Manougian’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/395670-scans-mngn-trial-brief.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attorney, Marvin Firestone, argued\u003c/a> that state law says doctors cannot be punished solely for prescribing to patients who are in intractable pain. In an interview, Manougian also said he had a special rapport with patients, who he said were like an extended family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson acknowledged that doctors can’t be disciplined for prescribing alone, but she noted that they are still accountable for unprofessional conduct, negligence or practicing incompetently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opioid painkiller prescribing has drawn increasing attention as addiction and overdose deaths have reached what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention call \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6101a3.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“epidemic” levels\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, the FBI said it had subpoenaed records from Manougian’s office, working with the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General and the Drug Enforcement Administration. FBI spokesman Pete Lee said an investigation into his practices is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manougian’s practice \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/395907-scan-ash-complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drew complaints\u003c/a> from \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/395908-scan-gin-complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pharmacists who\u003c/a> balked at some orders that called for 1,000 or more addictive and sedating pills per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson, the administrative judge, concluded that his patient care was grossly negligent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said he erred in the care of Irma Jean Gray, 62, who was found dead on her kitchen floor in January 2010. Anderson said Manougian failed to substantiate the diagnoses he reached to justify giving Gray “excessive amounts of dangerous drugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also failed to conduct meaningful reviews of her progress or assess her psychological state after she told him that she felt like checking into a mental hospital in the weeks before her death, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson also concluded that Manougian was grossly negligent in his care of Jeanette Dodds, 35, who died of fentanyl toxicity, and Konya Mattie, 41, who died with toxic doses of Xanax and methadone in his system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testimony in the case covered the care of nine other patients who were also treated with high doses of opioids for chronic pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An exhibit in the case showed that a pharmacist complained that one Manougian patient sold a bottle of opiate-laced cough syrup before leaving a Walgreens parking lot. An expert testifying on behalf of the state medical board said Manougian’s drugs were likely sold on the street by some patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson cited Manougian for failing to take widely accepted steps to monitor patients who are taking addictive drugs, such as ordering urine tests to be sure the drugs were taken and not sold. He also failed to review reports available to doctors that show “doctor shopping” behavior by patients who go to multiple physicians for narcotic drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson’s proposed decision acknowledges that “there can be no doubt” that Manougian “cares about his patients in his own way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But that care is provided through a narrow lens that sees only what he chooses to see, whether about possible effects of the medications he prescribes or the behavior of his patients,” she wrote. “He evidenced a naivete that strained credulity; trusting, as a matter of policy, almost everything told him by his patients, no matter their background or obvious pattern of behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Christina Jewett is an investigative journalist for \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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She said federal agents would focus on marijuana businesses close to schools and other places children gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 11, workers arrived at Harborside Health Center in downtown Oakland — which is billed as the largest pot dispensary in the world, but is not near a children’s school — to find notices taped to the door saying that the U.S. government had filed suit to seize the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change in policy is hurting Oakland in several ways, Parker told us. Crime related to marijuana has dropped since regulated dispensaries opened up, she said. “That’s my understanding, that now that people can buy this safely and affordably through this regulated dispensary process we don’t have the crime that would be associated with them attempting to do the same thing on the illegal market,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the city is harmed because patients who need marijuana won’t be able to get it safely, she said. “We think it is vital for this continue, otherwise these patients would be left to their own devices to buy this vital medicine on the black market, which would endanger their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city made a big investment in regulating marijuana, said Cedric Chao, who is acting as outside counsel to the city on the lawsuit. The city requires dispensaries to submit business plans, submit to audits and background checks, hire security, install lighting and cameras in parking lots, among other regulations. The dispensaries even have to furnish samples of marijuana to outside laboratories that verify the quality, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city expects to collect $1.4 million in taxes from dispensaries in 2012, said Chao, and loss of this revenue is another way in which it would be harmed by shuttering them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another legal basis for the lawsuit is the city’s claim that the statute of limitation has expired for the prosecution. Prosecutors must act within five years of the time they become aware of a crime, said Chao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is asking Judge Maria Elena James of the U.S. District Court for Northern California to stop the federal government from shutting dispensaries that comply with the law. It is not seeking damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council authorized the lawsuit last week, and Parker filed it Wednesday. The first court date, a case management conference, is scheduled for Jan. 10 2013. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 11, workers arrived at Harborside Health Center in downtown Oakland — which is billed as the largest pot dispensary in the world, but is not near a children’s school — to find notices taped to the door saying that the U.S. government had filed suit to seize the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change in policy is hurting Oakland in several ways, Parker told us. Crime related to marijuana has dropped since regulated dispensaries opened up, she said. “That’s my understanding, that now that people can buy this safely and affordably through this regulated dispensary process we don’t have the crime that would be associated with them attempting to do the same thing on the illegal market,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the city is harmed because patients who need marijuana won’t be able to get it safely, she said. “We think it is vital for this continue, otherwise these patients would be left to their own devices to buy this vital medicine on the black market, which would endanger their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city made a big investment in regulating marijuana, said Cedric Chao, who is acting as outside counsel to the city on the lawsuit. The city requires dispensaries to submit business plans, submit to audits and background checks, hire security, install lighting and cameras in parking lots, among other regulations. The dispensaries even have to furnish samples of marijuana to outside laboratories that verify the quality, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city expects to collect $1.4 million in taxes from dispensaries in 2012, said Chao, and loss of this revenue is another way in which it would be harmed by shuttering them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another legal basis for the lawsuit is the city’s claim that the statute of limitation has expired for the prosecution. Prosecutors must act within five years of the time they become aware of a crime, said Chao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is asking Judge Maria Elena James of the U.S. District Court for Northern California to stop the federal government from shutting dispensaries that comply with the law. It is not seeking damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council authorized the lawsuit last week, and Parker filed it Wednesday. The first court date, a case management conference, is scheduled for Jan. 10 2013. The federal government has 60 days to respond, said Chao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to U.S. Northern California Attorney Melinda Haag’s office, and to the Department of Justice, were not returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has not been in touch with any other local governments considering any similar actions, Parker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kevin A. Sabet, a former advisor to the Obama administration drug policy director Gil Kerlikowske told Reuters that Oakland’s marijuana policy is misguided:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This lawsuit is just the latest bizarre twist in California’s laughable medical marijuana program, a system where over 95% of users have no life threatening illness. If Oakland really cared about getting marijuana’s medical value to the truly sick and dying, they would be applying for research studies to explore the potential medical benefit of marijuana’s components for those with cancer pain or a terminal illness, as called for by the Institute of Medicine and American Medical Association. The current system, where the average user is a 32-year-old male with a history of drug abuse and no chronic illness is a sad joke.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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