‘Prescription for Disaster’ reporter wins Livingston
Filed under: Health journalism, Hot Health Headline
John Dickerson, a 26-year-old reporter for the Phoenix New Times, won the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in the local reporting category for stories about the Arizona Medical Board’s lax rules regarding physicians’ drug abuse.
Dickerson’s investigation revealed the state’s five-year monitoring period for physicians who had entered rehab for substance abuse to be inadequate, as a high percentage of those allowed to practice medicine (75 percent of a 20-physician total) relapsed after the monitoring window had expired.
Other stories in the award-winning series include:
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The AHCJ-NLM Fellowships will give four journalists the chance to spend a week on the campus of the National Institutes of Health learning about research and data from NIH and NLM, biomedical statistics, programs and resources and get hands-on training. Applications due Aug. 2.
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