Month: December 2012

The initiatives by the state's two medical schools to increase the number of primary care physicians in Wisconsin face a significant obstacle: Over the course of their careers, primary care doctors now make millions of dollars less than their counterparts in other specialties. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 12/3)

District Attorney John Chisholm said Friday his office will conduct an open John Doe hearing in March into the death of 25-year-old Brandon Johnson while he was a patient at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex. Johnson's death Oct. 6 from complications of a broken neck has already prompted multiple probes. In a second major development Friday, a federally designated patient advocacy organization called on the state to suspend or terminate the license of the county's psychiatric hospital. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 12/3)