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Beaumont billboard The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. By Eric Starkman CEO Adam Spiegel Adam Spiegel, CEO of the controversial outsourcing firm linked to the recent colonoscopy patient death at Beaumont Royal Oak, is fast learning that payback’s a bitch – especially when dished out by the hospital’s tough-as-nails nurse anesthetists. Spiegel last summer thought he hit pay dirt when his low-cost NorthStar o...

Share February 24, 2021, 5:47 PM The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. By Eric Starkman CEO John Fox While Beaumont Health’s medical and custodial staff risked their lives and hundreds of hospital employees lost their jobs, CEO John Fox and his top managers appear poised to rake in big bonuses for leveraging the 2020 pandemic into a very good year financially for Michigan’s biggest hospital net...

Share February 07, 2021, 11:26 PM The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. By Eric Starkman Beaumont Royal Oak Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs), who play a critical role in the flagship hospital’s lucrative surgical business, have overwhelmingly supported a union drive to combat what they warn are “unsafe” staffing conditions. More than 90 percent of the CRNAs at Royal Oak, along w...

How could a patient die from anesthesia for a colonoscopy? Every death related to anesthesia is a tragedy; even more so when a minor procedure such as a colonoscopy leads to a completely unexpected death. Everyone knows that open heart surgery carries a mortality risk, but few of us walk into the hospital for a colonoscopy thinking that death is a plausible outcome. We know so few facts at this point about what happened on January 21 at Beaumont Royal Oak Hospital in Michigan. The patient who d...

Share February 04, 2021, 4:55 PM This is reposted with the writers permission from her blog on medical topics. Shes a diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology and a past president of the California Society of Anesthesiologists. By Dr. Karen S. Sibert Every death related to anesthesia is a tragedy, especially when a minor procedure such as a colonoscopy leads to a completely unexpected death. Everyone knows that open heart surgery carries a mortality risk, but few of u...

The Red Wings honored him at a recent home game. The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. By Eric Starkman The passing of Richard Curbelo, who died two weeks ago undergoing a routine colonoscopy at Beaumont Health’s flagship Royal Oak hospital, reaffirmed a belief I know anecdotally to be true: Very bad things disproportionally happen to really good people. When I first got word of the horrific tragedy – colonoscop...

Share January 31, 2021, 11:15 PM The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. This column first appeared in his blog. By Eric Starkman Kelly and Matt Stafford (Photo: Facebook) Wow, Matt, what awesome news! Saturday night while I was studying the best way to invest in gold because I fear the world is going to hell in a handbasket, the news alert flashed on my screen that the Detroit Lions traded you to the L...

Share January 31, 2021, 11:15 PM The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved. This column first appeared in his blog. By Eric Starkman Kelly and Matt Stafford (Photo: Facebook) Wow, Matt, what awesome news! Saturday night while I was studying the best way to invest in gold because I fear the world is going to hell in a handbasket, the news alert flashed on my screen that the Detroit Lions traded you to the L...

Share January 29, 2021, 10:51 AM High-impact reporting about Beaumont Health at this site since last April has revealed aggressive cost-cutting, internal pushback by medical professionals, a talent exodus, a merger plan of questionable local value (later dropped) and a patients death last week under unusual circumstances. "Somethings rotten and DD has exposed it," reader Jim Drury of Royal Oak posts Thursday on Facebook. Reader reactions to two Beaumont articles this week. ...

Share January 29, 2021, 10:51 AM High-impact reporting about Beaumont Health at this site since last April has revealed aggressive cost-cutting, internal pushback by medical professionals, a talent exodus, a merger plan of questionable local value (later dropped) and a patients death last week under unusual circumstances. "Somethings rotten and DD has exposed it," reader Jim Drury of Royal Oak posts Thursday on Facebook. Reader reactions to two Beaumont articles this week. ...