The U.S. Indian Health Service’s latest effort to protect patients from abuse falls short, federal inspectors said in a report to be released Friday, despite a rush to overhaul policies this year following a sex-abuse scandal.
The new policies are too narrow and haven’t been implemented at some facilities, according to the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the health care agency. Obstacles remain, including fear among some IHS workers that they will be punished for...For more than two decades, government pediatrician Stanley Patrick Weber raised suspicions that he was a pedophile.
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