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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 outfit landed a contract to handle all the anesthesia procedures at Beaumont Health’s flagship Roya...

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 network. The results make clear why Fox commands the loyalty of John Lewis, the retired Comerica banke...

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 with their colleagues at Beaumont’s Troy and Grosse Pointe hospitals, voted last month in favor of ...

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 died, sources say, was a 51-year-old man who walked into the hospital for a routine colonoscopy. He ...

Share February 04, 2021, 4:55 PM This is reposted with the writer's permission from her blog on medical topics. She's 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 us walk into the hospital for a colonoscopy thinking that death is a plausible outcome. We know so...