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On April 25, 2008, a nationwide Digitek Tablet Recall was issued for the heart medication. Manufacturing problems caused some tablets to contain twice as much of the active ingredient as normal. This could result in digitalis toxicity in patients with impaired kidney function, which is a serious and potentially fatal illness.

Individual lawsuits and Digitek class actions are currently pending. All of the federal Digitek litigation has been consolidated in an MDL in the Southern District of West Virginia.

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The Texas Medical Board (TMB) took disciplinary action against 66 licensed physicians. Actions included 19 violations based on quality of care; 12 actions based on unprofessional conduct; 7 actions based on violation of probation or prior board order; 9 actions based on inadequate medical records violations; 3 actions based on impairment due to alcohol or drugs; 2 actions based on non-therapeutic prescribing; 3 actions based on other states' actions; 1 action based on peer review action; 3 miscellaneous actions; and 7 administrative orders based on minimal statutory violations.

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Fake car accidents are a growing problem in North Texas. Statistics reported to the National Insurance Crime Bureau show since 2001 there have been nearly 350 staged car accident schemes in North Texas alone.

According to Dallas FBI agents, recruiters will find people to intentionally crash or damage their cars. Then they work with chiropractors and law firms to file the bogus insurance claims. They all share money received from insurance companies.

The Dallas VA Medical Center has effectively closed its psychiatric wing after a fourth mentally ill patient this year committed suicide.

On April 4, a man fastened a bed sheet to the bottom corner of a door frame, draped a noose over the top, and hanged himself. Before that, a veteran hanged himself on a frame attached to his wheelchair. And in January, two men who met in the psychiatric ward committed suicide in Collin County days after being released.

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The voices in Jack Edenburn's head began soon after he returned from Vietnam. They told him to end it all.

He ignored them for almost 40 years, until the day he stood at the railroad tracks near his Lancaster home, fantasizing about stepping in front of a train. That's the day he went to Dallas VA Medical Center. And some days, he says, he regrets that decision.

"Imagine hell," he said of his five days in the psychiatric unit, "then think worse."

Patients soiled with feces and soaked in urine wandered aimlessly, screaming, rolling delirious on the floor. One woman, he said, removed ceiling tiles and crawled into the space above the day room.

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Texas Medical Board (TMB) suspended the license of Beauford Basped, D.O., license of Fort Worth, after a hearing in which the panel determined Dr. Basped had violated previous orders.

The action was based on Dr. Basped’s failure to comply with an agreed order dated April 20, 2007, requiring him to take and pass the Special Purpose Examination (SPEX), a test for basic medical knowledge, and complete the Center for Personalized Education for Physicians Program (CPEP) within 12 months.

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