From Jan Lundberg culturechange.org

Dr. David Cundiff, author of The Health Economy, has just released his new book Whistleblower Doctor--The Politics and Economics of Pain and Dying. Please see the webpage http://thehealtheconomy.com/WD/Whistle.htm

Dr. Cundiff is well known for losing his job and license over cutting tax-payers' costs at a major hospital in Los Angeles. Subsequently for his State relicensing hearing (May 27, 2011) he is refusing to play along with the campaign to blame himself by apologizing for giving the best treatment to a patient. Dr. Cundiff had begun to questionable the anti-coagulant drug Coumadin (basically rat poison). His position is being vindicated by the approval of prospective research, but he has to force the issue among federal bureaucrats. Will he get his license back?

This exposé, Whistleblower Doctor-The Politics and Economics of Pain and Dying, concerns Dr. David K. Cundiff's efforts over 32 years to improve the quality of palliative care and hospice services for cancer and AIDS patients at the LA County + USC Medical Center. Over a nine year period, he improved the care of terminally ill cancer and AIDS patients at the LA County + USC Medical Center by directing a popular "Pain and Palliative Care Consultation Service." Unfortunately for the financial bottom line of the hospital, better pain and symptom control of terminally ill patients led to more patients at home and fewer patients occupying Medicaid-funded hospital beds.

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